Attitude Toward Living Liver Donation after an Audiovisual Educational Intervention on Teenagers
Beatriz Febrero1, Javier J Almela1, Pablo P Ramírez1, Belén B Pérez-Sánchez2, Antonio A Ríos1, Beatriz B Gómez1, Felipe F Alconchel1, Pascual P Parrilla1.
1General Surgery. Transplant Unit., Virgen de la Arrixaca University Hospital. Instituto Murciano de Investigaciones Biomédicas, Murcia, Spain; 2Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Informatics. , Miguel Hernández University, Elche, Spain
Introduction: The knowledge and attitude of teenagers toward the different kinds of organ donation is important if we intend to increase the pool of donors in the future. Objective: to determine the attitude of teenagers toward living liver donation before and after receiving an audiovisual educational intervention about organ donation and transplantation.
Materials and Methods: Four Compulsory Secondary Schools (C.S.O.) were selected in southeastern Spain. In these schools, students were selected from the 4th year of C.S.O. (n=224). A questionnaire was applied that assessed attitude toward living liver donation, among other variables. Questionnaire completion was anonymous, but the students used a code on the questionnaire. Next, they were shown ten interviews conducted on different personalities related to the field of organ donation and transplantation, with a total duration of thirty minutes. One of the interviews was related to living liver donation, in which an explanation was given of the different types of donation, the characteristics of living donation, the requirements for being able to carry it out, the associated risks, etc. Afterwards a second questionnaire was handed out to them with questions that were similar to those of the first one. The questionnaires were matched by using the code that had been used by each student. Statistical analysis: and SPSS Statistics Base (version 21.0). A descriptive analysis and a McNemar test.
Results: There was an increase in positive attitude toward living liver donation from 58% (n=127) to 65% (n=142) after receiving the educational intervention, with an increase in both unrelated donation (from 20% to 22%) and related donation (to a family member) (from 38% to 43%). However, no statistically significant differences were found (p=0.078).
Conclusion: Attitude toward living liver donation could improve in teenagers after receiving an audiovisual educational intervention explaining the most important aspects related to this kind of donation. Therefore, it would be interesting to conduct new educational initiatives which could have a more positive impact on attitude.
