ArticleBMC medical ethics2014
Impact of gender and professional education on attitudes towards financial incentives for organ donation: results of a survey among 755 students of medicine and economics in Germany.
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- The Willingness to Donate Organs in Medical Students From an International Perspective: A Meta-Analysis.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2022Pooled it
- The effectiveness of current informative material in improving awareness and opinion of undergraduate students towards organ donation: a comparative, randomized survey study.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2019Trial
- Sex and Gender Disparities in Living Kidney Donation: A Scoping Review.Transplantation direct · 2023Article
- Attitudes of European students towards family decision-making and the harmonisation of consent systems in deceased organ donation: a cross-national survey.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Knowledge, attitudes and willingness to organ donation among the general public: a cross-sectional survey in China.BMC public health · 2022Article
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- An ethical comparison of living kidney donation and surrogacy: understanding the relational dimension.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2019Article
- [Knowledge, trust, and the decision to donate organs : A comparison of medical students and students of other disciplines in Germany].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2018Article
- Attitude towards organ donation in German medical students.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2016Article
- Attitudes of Turkish Medical and Law Students towards the Organ Donation.International journal of organ transplantation medicine · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere is an ongoing expert debate with regard to financial incentives in order to increase organ supply. However, there is a lacuna of empirical studies on whether citizens would actually support financial incentives for organ donation.
methodsBetween October 2008 and February 2009 a quantitative survey was conducted among German students of medicine and economics to gain insights into their point of view regarding living and deceased organ donation and different forms of commercialization (n = 755).
resultsThe average (passive) willingness to donate is 63.5% among medical students and 50.0% among students of economics (p = 0.001), while only 24.1% of the respondents were actually holding an organ donor card. 11.3% of students of economics had signed a donor card, however, the number is significantly higher among students of medicine (31.9%, p < 0.001). Women held donor cards significantly more often (28.6%) than men (19.4%, p = 0.004). The majority of students were against direct payments as incentives for deceased and living donations. Nevertheless, 37.5% of the respondents support the idea that the funeral expenses of deceased organ donors should be covered. Women voted significantly less often for the coverage of expenses than men (women 31.6%, men 44.0%, p = 0.003). The number of those in favor of allowing to sell one's organs for money (living organ donation) was highest among students of economics (p = 0.034).
conclusionDespite a generally positive view on organ donation the respondents refuse to consent to commercialization, but are in favor of removing disincentives or are in favor of indirect models of reward.
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