Polish attitudes towards unspecified kidney donation: a cross-sectional study

Background Chronic kidney disease effects about 4.2 million people in Poland, yet Polish organ donation research is rare. In addition, compared to other countries in the world, Poland has a relatively low living donation rate. Still, little is known about how Poles would react to the possibility of living kidney donation to strangers. A study was conducted to examine public opinion about living kidney donation, as well as their knowledge about it, willingness to donate to a stranger, and support for a possible expansion of existing Polish organ donation legislation to include living donation to strangers. Methods A self-report questionnaire, which included a socio-demographic datasheet (9 questions), 16 questions about attitudes towards living donation, and 1 question about knowledge concerning transplantation law was sent to the respondents from December 2020 – February 2021. Logistic regression was used to assess factors affecting the support of the legalization of unspecified kidney donation amongst the participants. Results More than sixty percent (62.1) of respondents supported legalization of unspecified living kidney donation. Such legalization would be accepted by people who accept a choice of a family member to donate a kidney to a stranger (OR = 3.50; Cl 95%: 1.49 to 4.85), who think bone-marrow transplant is safe (OR = 2.65; Cl 95%: 1.80 to 3.91), recognize the benefit of carrying out tests before donating a kidney (OR = 2.56; Cl 95%: 1.79 to 3.69), would agree to receive a kidney from another person (OR = 2.24; Cl 95%: 2.53 to 3.13), or would agree to donate organs after death (OR = 2.06; Cl 95%: 1.45 to 2.95). However, support for unspecified living kidney donation would not be given by respondents fearing the risk of organ trafficking (OR = 0.54; Cl 95%: 0.38 to 0.79). Conclusions In Poland there is strong support for legalization of unspecified living kidney donation. It is vital that future legislation define organ trafficking as a crime with serious punishment so that legal unspecified living kidney donation is not hindered. Trial registration The study was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (ID: NCT04789122) on 08/03/2021..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

BMC nephrology - 23(2022), 1 vom: 13. Apr.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kurleto, Paulina [VerfasserIn]
Tomaszek, Lucyna [VerfasserIn]
Milaniak, Irena [VerfasserIn]
Bramstedt, Katrina A. [VerfasserIn]

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44.00 / Medizin: Allgemeines / Medizin: Allgemeines

Themen:

Kidney transplantation
Legislation
Organ donation
Poland
Unspecified kidney donation

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© The Author(s) 2022

doi:

10.1186/s12882-022-02767-x

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC2130150411