- Title
- A Cross-Sectional Study of Professional Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Organ Donation in Critical Care Units of Public and Private Hospitals in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Creator
- Green, Bukelwa
- Creator
- Mtise, Tobeka
- Creator
- Oladimeji, Olanrewaju
- Description
- Background: Globally, there is an overwhelming increase in the number of patients waiting for donated organs for transplantation, with a gross shortage of available organs. Lack of clear practice guidelines and the knowledge and attitudes of health care providers were hypothesized as possible reasons. We aimed to determine the attitudes, level of knowledge, and practices of professional nurses working in critical care units in public and private hospitals in Eastern Cape Province regarding organ donation. Method: The study used a quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive design to investigate the current knowledge, attitude, and practice of organ donation in critical care among 108 professional nurses working in public and private critical care units in Eastern cape. Data were collected between 26 February 2017 until 27 June 2017 using anonymous, self-administered, pretested questionnaires. The means of knowledge, and practice scores were estimated among participants, and their associated categorical explanatory variables were ascertained. Results: A total of 108 nurses participated in the study. Of these, 94 (87.0%) were female, 78 (72.2%) were black, 104 (96.3%) were Christians, 79 (73.2%) worked in an ICU, 79 (73.2%) had a diploma qualification, and 67 (62.0%) worked in a tertiary hospital. About 67% of the respondents had good knowledge, 53% had a positive attitude, and 50.4% had poor practice readiness toward organ donation...
- Date
- 2023/01
- Subject
- Organ donation
- Subject
- Transplantation
- Subject
- Knowledge
- Subject
- Attitudes
- Subject
- Practice
- Subject
- Professional nurses
- Subject
- Eastern Cape
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/13242
- Identifier
- vital:78114
- Identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/nursrep13010024
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Nursing reports
- Relation
- Green, B.; Goon, D.T.; Mtise, T.; Oladimeji, O. A Cross-Sectional Study of Professional Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Organ Donation in Critical Care Units of Public and Private Hospitals in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Nurs. Rep. 2023, 13, 255–264. https://doi.org/10.3390/ nursrep13010024
- Relation
- Nursing reports 13 vol 1 255 264 2023 https://doi.org/10.3390/nursrep13010024
- Rights
- ©2023, authors
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