OPINIONS OF ACADEMICIAN OUTSIDE THE FIELD OF HEALTH ABOUT ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION AND DONATION

ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE: In this study, it was intended to determine the opinions of the academic group without health origins, about organ transplantation and donation. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The ethics committee approval of the study was taken from the Turkish Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Committee (26.02.2016; 2016/07). 202 academics who were not on leave, who accepted to participate in the study and who worked in faculties and colleges except the field of health were taken into the scope of the study. Questionnaire method was used in the research. Questionnaire prepared by researchers searching the literature containing 28 questions about organ transplantation and donation were given to the academics who were taken into the scope of the research and they were asked to complete it. The results were evaluated with SPSS 22,0 package software. RESULTS: 92.6 % of the academics expressed that they did not donate their organs. 54 % of the academics answered the question ‘’Do you think to donate your organs later?’’ as ‘’I do not know’’. It was seen that 98.5 % of the academics knew the definition of cerebral death. 60.4 % of the academics expressed that organ donation was made for a consideration, 52.5 % of them expressed that there was bias in the organ waiting lists and 81.2 % of them expressed that they believed that there was illegal organ trade. 44.6 % of the academics answered that the reason was the thought about its religiously not being allowable. CONCLUSIONS: It can be said that the organ donation rate of the academics is low, they are indecisive about donation in the future and they have wrong opinions about organ distribution. They think that the low rate of organ donations is because of the thought about its being religiously not allowable