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. 2022 Jan 13;11(2):2685.
doi: 10.4081/jphr.2022.2685.

Association between organ donation awareness and willingness among Saudi university students

Abdullah Ahmed Al Moweshy  1 , Eduardo L Fabella  2 , Yasser Taher Al-Hassan  3 , Hassan Abdulfatah Alramadan  4 , Ali Jameel Al Abdullah  5 , Hassan Ibrahim Al Hassan  6 , Ahmed Yousef Bu-Khamsin  7 , Ali Habib Al Abdullah  8 , Murtadha Radhi Albather  9
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Association between organ donation awareness and willingness among Saudi university students

Abdullah Ahmed Al Moweshy et al. J Public Health Res. .

Abstract

Background: As the global incidence of end-stage organ failure increases, the gap between organ donors and recipients continues to widen. This study was conducted to determine the association between organ donation awareness and organ donation willingness among students of a Saudi university.

Design and methods: This analytical cross-sectional study was conducted in King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia. Multi-stage stratified random sampling was used to select the required 723 sample size. Estimation of proportion of students who were aware about organ donation and those who were willing to donate their organs was performed using EpiInfo© Version 7. Association between organ donation awareness and willingness was determined using multivariate logistic regression.

Results: Nearly 98% of the participants were aware that organ donation saves lives (95% CI: 96.27%-98.53%); 84.09% were aware that Islam allows organ donation (95% CI: 81.25%-86.58%); 64.87% were aware that organ donation is successfully done in Saudi Arabia (95% CI: 61.32%-68.26%); 32.64% were aware that the government gives incentives to the family of an organ donor (95% CI: 29.32%-36.14%). Over half (56.71%) of the students (95% CI: 53.07 - 60.28%) expressed willingness to donate their organs. Positive association was found between awareness on the position of Islam on organ donation (OR=2.7023, p<0.0001) and awareness of that organ donation can be successfully performed in Saudi Arabia (OR=1.9447, p=0.0001).

Conclusions: Awareness that Islam allows organ donation and awareness that organ donation is successfully done in Saudi Arabia increased the students' willingness to donate.

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