Factors Affecting Family’s Consent in Brain-Death Candidates for Organ Donation

Document Type : مقاله کوتاه

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1 MSc Student, Department of Psychology, School of Humanities, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, School of Humanities, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, School of Medicine AND Research Center for Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

4 Department of Humanities, Fouladshahr Branch, Payame Noor University, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

Background: According to donating law, in addition to patient satisfaction, family’s consent for organ donation is essential. In this study, factors affecting patients’ families’ consent in brain-death candidates for organ donation was investigated.Methods: This descriptive with the population of 135 consent families to organ donation was done in Isfahan, Iran, during 2002 to 2012. As a sample, 100 subjects were selected randomly via Morgan table. A researcher-made questionnaire and Allport and Ross Religious Orientation Scale were used for data collection. The descriptive (mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics [t and analysis of variances (ANOVA)] were used for data analysis.Findings: Treatment, physician support and the religious attitudes had direct influence on the decision of the families for organ donation. In contrast, the effect of factors such as knowledge, the impact of coordinator and internal religious beliefs were not significant. In addition, there was no difference between the influence of factors such as gender and influential component (knowledge, the treatment, the coordinator, religious attitudes and beliefs) on family’s consent. However, the impact of factors such as the treatment, the physician, the coordinator, religious attitudes and external religious beliefs were different based on educational background.Conclusion: The effect of individual characteristics of coordination, religious attitudes and internal religious beliefs vary based on people’s career.

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Journal of Isfahan Medical School
Volume 33, Issue 344 - Serial Number 344
May and June 2015
Pages 1233-1238

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  • Receive Date: 13 January 2014
  • Revise Date: 26 May 2024
  • Accept Date: 06 April 2022

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