Observational studyBMC nephrology2022
Polish attitudes towards unspecified kidney donation: a cross-sectional study.
Observational study in BMC nephrology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04789122 (Assessment of Poles' Attitudes Towards Living Kidney Donation), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers.
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Assessment of Poles' Attitudes Towards Living Kidney Donation
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.
- Deceased organ and tissue donor with burn injury.Cell and tissue banking · 2025Review
- Willingness to Become a Living Kidney Donor to a Stranger Among Polish Health Care Professionals Employed in a Dialysis Center: A National Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- How to Promote the Idea of Transplantation-Second Life Social Campaign as an Example of Successful Action in Poland-What Youth Is Used to, Adults Remember.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Factors Influencing the Information Support Provided by Health Care Professionals to Patients in a Dialysis Center Regarding Kidney Transplantation: A Nationwide Study.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025Article
- A Cross-Sectional Survey to Identify Sociodemographic Factors Associated with the Frequency of Urinalysis in a Representative Sample of Adults in Poland, 2024.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Blood donation practice and its associated factors among Polish population: secondary data analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundChronic kidney disease effects about 4.2 million people in Poland, yet Polish organ donation research is rare. In addition, compared to other countries in the world, Poland has a relatively low living donation rate. Still, little is known about how Poles would react to the possibility of living kidney donation to strangers. A study was conducted to examine public opinion about living kidney donation, as well as their knowledge about it, willingness to donate to a stranger, and support for a possible expansion of existing Polish organ donation legislation to include living donation to strangers.
methodsA self-report questionnaire, which included a socio-demographic datasheet (9 questions), 16 questions about attitudes towards living donation, and 1 question about knowledge concerning transplantation law was sent to the respondents from December 2020 - February 2021. Logistic regression was used to assess factors affecting the support of the legalization of unspecified kidney donation amongst the participants.
resultsMore than sixty percent (62.1) of respondents supported legalization of unspecified living kidney donation. Such legalization would be accepted by people who accept a choice of a family member to donate a kidney to a stranger (OR = 3.50; Cl 95%: 1.49 to 4.85), who think bone-marrow transplant is safe (OR = 2.65; Cl 95%: 1.80 to 3.91), recognize the benefit of carrying out tests before donating a kidney (OR = 2.56; Cl 95%: 1.79 to 3.69), would agree to receive a kidney from another person (OR = 2.24; Cl 95%: 2.53 to 3.13), or would agree to donate organs after death (OR = 2.06; Cl 95%: 1.45 to 2.95). However, support for unspecified living kidney donation would not be given by respondents fearing the risk of organ trafficking (OR = 0.54; Cl 95%: 0.38 to 0.79).
conclusionsIn Poland there is strong support for legalization of unspecified living kidney donation. It is vital that future legislation define organ trafficking as a crime with serious punishment so that legal unspecified living kidney donation is not hindered.
trial registrationThe study was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (ID: NCT04789122 ) on 08/03/2021.
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