Organ donation and utilization in the USA.

Organ Donation Awareness: Rethinking Media Campaigns

Analysis of Solutions for Developing Resources of Organ Donation; A Donation Card Approach

Nowadays, organ transplant is an inevitable necessity for patients in need who other medical treatments don’t work for them. Nevertheless, it has become one of the major challenges of societies to find transplantable organs in order to bring patients in need back to society and their families. The statistics points out that in the year 2017, despite the issuance of the four million organ donati...

Factors influencing decisions on organ donation in brain death patients

Organ donation is an integral part of the health care system. Many patients who have had an accident or have undergone a progressive disease are in need of an organ transplant and if they do not receive the required organ they would die. It is important to know that the most important source of organ donation is the brain death patients. It is highly essential to determine the pivotal factors t...

Knowledge and Attitude of Teachers in Sanandaj City towards Organ Donation

Nowadays, transplantation is the final treatment for the patients with end-stage organ dysfunction. Considering the importance of the organ donation and the important role of teachers in raising the knowledge and attitude of a large group of people, the present study aimed to determine the level of knowledge and the attitudes of the teachers in Sanandaj regarding organ donation. This study was ...

The role of empathy dimensions in predicting Nurses' attitudes toward organ donation in hospitals of Isfahan province

Introduction: The empathy of nurses with patients, as a moral behavior towards the culture making of organ donation, always has been considered by health sector planners. Therefore, the study of empathy of nurses with patients and their attitude toward organ donation is one of the main goals of nursing education and this study aimed to determine the relationship between nurses' empathy with pat...

A comparative study on effective factors on consent to organ donation among families of brain death victims in Isfahan, 2013

Objective: According to the previous studies, several social, cultural, and organizational factors are involved in the decision of families of brain death victims for organ donation. The present study was performed to determine the effective factors in the decision of organ donation among families of brain death victims. Methods: In this descriptive-com...