Intervention Effects Of Knowledge, Attitudes And Willingness Of Organ Donation On The Rural Residents In Southwest Of Hunan Province

ObjectiveTo investigate knowledge, attitudes and willingness of rural residents for organdonation in Southwest of Hunan Province，and to study influencial factors of the ruralresidents’ willingness of organ donation. To provide the reference evidence for healtheducation of organ donation in the countryside, the intervention effects of healtheducation of organ donation on the rural residents were analyzed.MethodsA total of1000rural residents were asked to answer the questionnaires usingstratified and random samples. The demographical information of the rural residentswas collected by common questionnaire. The questionnaire of organ donation wasused to evaluate the situation of knowledge, attitudes and willingness of the ruralresidents for organ donation in Southwest of Hunan Province. On the basis of KAPtheory, one hundred students were randomly evently divided into two groups as theintervention group and the control group. The intervention way of organ donationwere designed and utilized to assesse the effects of knowledge, attitudes andwillingness on the rural residents for organ donation by being compared before andafter the intervention between the control group and the intervention group. Allcollected data were analysed by SPSS13.0.Results(1)Among964rural residents whose questionnaires could be used to study, the average scores of knowledge, attitudes and willingness of organ donation of the ruralresidents were respectively (5.66±1.70),(3.88±0.66)and(1.85±0.83). Theaverage scores of ‘identifying with the value of organ donation’,‘blocking the causeof organ donation’ and ‘don’t identify with the value of organ donation’ wererespectively (2.90±0.89),(4.05±0.96)and(4.69±0.86). The rural residents whohad learned the knowledge of organ donation from television were75.40%.(2)The scores of knowledge, attitudes and willingness of organ donation weresignificantly different in terms of age, the place of birth, degree of education, career,politics status, marital status, family structure, the number of family brothers andsisters and whether to accept or learned organ transplant related content. There wasstatistically significant difference for the score of knowledge of organ donation amongthe rural residents who were from ‘the different the average per capita income familygroup’. The score of attitudes of organ donation was significantly different in terms ofthe gender, nation, the average per capita income family and whether family workingpersonnel. The score of willingness of organ donation was significantly different interms of gender and whether family working personnel.(3)The score of knowledge of organ donation was positively correlated with ‘theaverage per capita income family’ and ‘degree of education’, but negativelycorrelated with age, family structure and the number of family children. The score ofattitudes of organ donation was positively correlated with age, family structure andthe number of family children, but negatively correlated with the average per capitaincome family and degree of education.The score of willingness of organ donationwas positively correlated with the degree of education, but negatively correlated withage, family structure and the number of family children.(4)Age, degree of education, religion and attitudes of organ donation were the maininfluencial factors for willingness of organ donation of the rural residents.(5)Before intervention, there were not significant difference between the interventgroup and control group for their demographic data. After two hours of intervention,the scores of knowledge, attitudes and willingness of organ donation were statistically significant difference between two groups(P<0.05).Conclusion(1)The rural residents’ scores of knowledge of organ donation was at a lower level.(2)Age, degree of education, religion and attitudes of organ donation were the maininfluencial factors for willingness of organ donation of the rural residents.(3) Intervention of the health education of organ donation based on KAP theory on therural residents could effectively improve their level of knowledge, attitudes andwillingness of organ donation.