Determinants of Willingness to Become Organ Donors among Dialysis Patients' Family Members.
OBJECTIVE
This study explores the factors affecting the willingness of dialysis patients' family members to become involved in living and deceased organ donation.


METHODS
We utilize cross sectional data on 350 family members of dialysis patients collected through self-administered survey from June to October 2013. The factors affecting willingness to become deceased and living organ donors among respondents were identified by running logistic regressions.


RESULTS
The findings reveal that ethnicity, education and role in family are significant factors explaining will­ingness for living donation, while ethnicity, knowledge of organ donation and donor age drive willingness for deceased donation. We also find that the reasons of respondents being unwilling to donate center on the lack of information and family objections for deceased donation, while being medically unfit, scared of surgery and family objections are the reasons for unwillingness to donate living organs.


CONCLUSIONS
In light of our findings, educational efforts are suggested to decrease the reluctance to become in­volved in living and deceased donation.
Department of Administrative Studies and Politics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. makmor@um.edu.my.
Makmor
M
Tumin
Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Nurul Huda
NH
Mohd Satar
Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Roza Hazli
RH
Zakaria
Department of Administrative Studies and Politics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Raja Noriza
RN
Raja Ariffin
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Lim
L
Soo-Kun
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Ng
N
Kok-Peng
Institute of Research Management and Monitoring, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Khaled
K
Tafran
D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003657:Decision Making; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000523:psychology*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement