title: [Myths about organ donation on health personnel, potential recipients and relatives of potential donors in a peruvian hospital: a qualitative study].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the myths regarding organ donation at a national hospital in Lambayeque, Peru during 2014.
  
  
  METHODS
  A qualitative-phenomenological study was performed using 24 unstructured in-depht interview of health personnel, potential recipients and relatives of potential donors. Sampling was intentional opinion-based, completed by theoretical saturation in each group. An interview guide was used, which was assessed by five experts, and data triangulation was performed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Twenty-three interviewees (95,8%) reported a favorable attitude towards organ donation. On their National Identification Document, thirteen (54,2%) had marked "no" for donation. The myths were: age or illness can preclude donation; that the recipient may experience the donor's behaviours and lives in it; brain death is undestood as the immobility of the body and a reversible state; religions do not accept organ donation because it affects physical integrity and resurrection; and that there are preferences on the organ donor waiting list and that organ trafficking taxes place.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Myths explored in this study involved religious, socio-cultural, psychological and ethical misperceptions. The apparent lack of knowledge of the brain death diagnosis is the starting point of the donation process. Therefore, the presence of a hospital coordinator, the role of spiritual leaders and the correct information provided by media would be key parts to dispell these myths.
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gómez-Rázuri
authors.forename: José
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ballena-López
authors.forename: Franco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: León-Jiménez
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D010568:Peru; D012067:Religion; D012924:Social Conditions; D014019:Tissue Donors; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement