Conocimientos, creencias y actitudes de los estudiantes universitarios hacia la donación de órganos: Un estudio cualitativo

Abstract

Both vascularized composite transplants and allogeneic transplants, as they depend ondonations, are due to psychosocial factors that, knowing them, allow us to take appropriate educa-tional attitudes. Objective: to explore the knowledge, beliefs and attitudes of nursing and computerscience students regarding the donation and transplantation of organs and vascularized compoundallogeneic transplants. Material and methods: exploratory research with qualitative approach.Semi-structured interviews with 10 nursing and computer science students. Results: three catego-ries: knowledge, showing disinformation; beliefs such as that there is nothing after death, that do-nation is altruistic and that their professions help raise awareness; and attitudes such as that theytend to talk about death openly, but not about donation. Discussion: university students are aware,but they are not well informed, finding evidence such as that religion or donating blood or marrowdoes not influence to be an organ donor and knowing recipients or someone with some disfigure-ment and talking about death does influence. Conclusions: there are beliefs that favor the donationof organs and vascularized composite tissue in university students, but also a significant misinfor-mation and a lack of dialogue about becoming a donor that damages said donation and the educa-tional role in this regard at a professional level.(AU)