Healthcare students support opt-out organ donation for practical and moral reasons.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Changes to deceased organ donation policy in the USA, including opt-out and priority systems, have been proposed to increase registration and donation rates. To study attitudes towards such policies, we surveyed healthcare students to assess support for opt-out and priority systems and reasons for support or opposition.

Methods

We investigated associations with supporting opt-out, including organ donation knowledge, altruism, trust in the healthcare system, prioritising autonomy and participants' evaluation of the moral severity of incorrectly assuming consent in opt-in systems ('opt-in error') or opt-out systems ('opt-out error'), by conducting an online survey among healthcare students at a large academic institution.

Results

Of 523 respondent

SUBMITTER: Qian L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8651801 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature