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Invest Medicoquir 2012; 4 (1)

Knowledge about the brain death and attitude toward the organs donation in non sanitary population from Ha vana, Cuba

Abdo CA, Leal AG, Rocha QM, Suárez LJ, Castellanos GR, Ríos ZA

Language: Spanish
References: 14
Page: 4-11
PDF size: 146.93 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction. Knowledge of a population about the brain death can allow positive attitudes toward the organs donation after the deat h. Methods. 200 people, 45.5% masculine sex and 54.5% femenine sex were interviewed, with an half age 45.11 years old. The attitude toward the donation of organs after the death of a relative or own was determined. The knowledge about the brain death was e valuated by means of the question: Does it exist some possibility that a person with brain death can recover and to live? Results. 81% of those interviewed would donate its organs and 66% those of a relative. 40% of those interviewed knew the concept of br ain death. In the negative group to the personal donation a prevalence existed in the group without knowledge of the brain death (28 vs 10, p=0.056), the same as in the negative group to the family donation (39 vs 29, p=0.583). Conclusions. To develop education strategies about the brain death can act in a positive way in the favorable attitude toward the organs donation.


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