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Article: Family conversations about organ donation
- Article from:
- Progress in Transplantation
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright North American Transplant Coordinators Organization Mar 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Objective-To describe family conversations about organ donation and to examine interrelationships among the content and outcomes of these conversations, and attitudes toward organ donation.
Design-Closed and open-ended survey questions.
Participants-353 men and 488 women.
Main Outcome Measures-Content analysis of reports of conversations and of reactions of family members to the conversations, as well as closed items assessing both those issues and attitudes toward donation.
Results-Most respondents who were willing to donate their organs had not talked with their families about their donation wishes. Conversations that did occur were typically about the patient's donation wishes and moral ...