Willingness toward post-mortem body donation to science at a Mexican university: an exploratory survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Voluntary post-mortem donation to science (PDS) is the most appropriate source for body dissection in medical education and training, and highly useful for biomedical research. In Mexico, unclaimed bodies are no longer a legal source, but PDS is legally possible, although scarcely facilitated, and mostly ignored by the general population. Therefore, we aimed to evaluate the attitude and willingness for PDS and to identify a sociodemographic profile of people with willingness toward PDS.

Methods

A validated on-line survey was distributed by the convenience method via the social networks of a Catholicism-inspired, private university in northern Mexico. Frequency analyses of all variables and coded free comments were complemented with association studies.

Results<

SUBMITTER: Meester I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10675933 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature