[Disposition for organ donation: analysis of a survey and trial of 974 respondents].
BACKGROUND
Due to the lack of donor organs many patients cannot be helped in time with the necessary transplantation in Germany. At the same time, there is an organ donor potential that is not being exploited. A high refusal rate with a low rate of organ donor card holders remains problematic. The objective of this study was to collect the rate of holders of organ donor cards in a collective and to evaluate the collective according to other attributes in the context of a targeted trial.


METHODS
In 2009, a three-part questionnaire including an educational text regarding the topic of "organ donation" was sent out to the employees of the Sparkasse Essen (a savings bank).


RESULTS
Altogether, 974 out of 1480 (65.8 %) completely answered questionnaires were evaluated. 21.3 % of the respondents had an organ donor card at the time the survey was carried out. A statistically significant association between gender (p value, 0.0438), age (p value, 0.0267) and the possession of a donor card could be determined. 22.1 % of the respondents who participated in sports regularly or donated blood (p value, < 0.0049), were holding an organ donor card. 60 % of the respondents found the brief information to be sufficient, 22.6 % could imagine acquiring an organ donor card for them based on the presented information alone.


CONCLUSIONS
The spread of information and transparency in transplant medicine are essential for the facilitation of "willingness to donate organs". In the framework of this trial, besides data analysis, also fundamental information on "organ donation" could be conveyed. After all, 95.3 % of the respondents have read the information material and hence document the success of the study.
Universitätsklinikum Essen, Klinik für Allgemein-, Visceral- und Transplantationschirurgie, Essen, Deutschland.
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Universitätsklinikum Essen, Klinik für Allgemein-, Visceral- und Transplantationschirurgie, Essen, Deutschland.
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Remmer
Universitätsklinikum Essen, Klinik für Allgemein-, Visceral- und Transplantationschirurgie, Essen, Deutschland.
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Radünz
DSO, DSO, Hannover, Deutschland.
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Frühauf
Universitätsklinikum Essen, Klinik für Gastroenterologie und Hepatologie, Essen, Deutschland.
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Canbay
Universitätsklinikum Essen, Klinik für Allgemein-, Visceral- und Transplantationschirurgie, Essen, Deutschland.
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Universitätsklinikum Essen, Klinik für Allgemein-, Visceral- und Transplantationschirurgie, Essen, Deutschland.
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Kaiser
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000193:education* / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000458:organization & administration*; D055815:Young Adult