Organ Donation Awareness: Rethinking Media Campaigns

Organizations as Communities: Creating Worksite Campaigns to Promote Organ Donation

Organ Donation Campaigns: Perspective of Dialysis Patient's Family Members

BACKGROUND Solving the dilemma of the organ shortage in Malaysia requires educating Malaysians about organ donation and transplantation. This paper aims at exploring the average Malaysian households ' preferred channels of campaigns and the preferred campaigners in a family setting, targeting at the dialysis family members. METHODS We analyzed the responses of 350 respondents regarding organ ...

Social Media and Organ Donation Authors:

Organ donation, transplantation, and mass media.

CADAVERIC organ shortage is the most important obstacle to more widespread provision of transplants to more patients. This shortage is not primarily the result of a lack of suitable donors but rather the result of failure to identify donors, obtain consent, and procure the organs. Approaching the family represents a key point in the process and at the same time is its most sensitive element bec...

Trends of organ donation and awareness in Ernakulam, Kerala

Results Of the participants, in urban area 81% and in the rural area 85% had knowledge about organ donation. In the urban area 84% and in rural area 95% of the participants were pro-organ donation of that 76% in urban area and 78% in rural area are willing to donate organs for transplantation if required. Age, sex, money and occupation did not influence the attitudes. Out of those who are willi...

Awareness and Attitudes toward Organ Donation in Rural Puducherry, India

BACKGROUND For many of the end-stage organ diseases, organ transplantation is the most preferred treatment. The need for the organ transplantation is higher than the availability. For the transplantation program to be successful, awareness regarding organ donation is needed and people must have a positive attitude toward donating organs. AIM This study aims to assess the awareness and attitud...