The Willingness to Donate Organs in Medical Students From an International Perspective: A Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Attitude toward organ donation mobilizes donation behavior and makes transplant surgery possible. As future health professionals, medical students will be a relevant generating opinion group and will have an important role in the organ requesting process. The goals of this meta-analysis were to obtain polled rates of medical students who are in favor, against, or indecisive toward cadaveric organ donation in the studies conducted around the world, and to explore sociocultural variables influencing the willingness to donate. Electronic search and revision of references from previous literature allowed us to locate 57 studies fulfilling the inclusion criteria. Data extraction and risk of bias assessment were performed by two independent investigators. Pooled estimations were computed assumin

SUBMITTER: Iniesta-Sepulveda M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9273723 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature