11th Congress of the Andalusian Society of Organ and Tissue TransplantationOrgan donationAre Ghanaians Residing in Spain Aware of the Donation of Living Related Kidney?
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Population Under Study
The study included the population born in Ghana and residing in Spain extracted from the International Collaborative Donor Project.
Inclusion Criteria
The sample of the population included those over 15 years stratified by age and sex, according to census data and immigrant assistance associations.
Evaluation Instrument
The study used the “PCID-DVR-Ríos” [11]: an attitude questionnaire toward LKD, which explains 63.995% of the total variance, with a Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient of 0.801.
Fieldwork
People were randomly selected among
Attitude Toward Related LKD
Of the 237 Ghanaian residents surveyed, 72% (n = 170) are in favor of related LKD, not just related (ie, from relatives and close friends). The remaining 28% (n = 67) were against or undecided.
Bivariate Analysis
Factors associated with the attitude toward living organ donation are shown in Table 1.
Discussion
Renal transplantation with a living donor is growing in importance due to the large and persistent number of patients pending a renal transplant. The dead body waiting list method is insufficient. In addition, there are the following positive factors associated with choosing LKD [4,[7], [8], [9]]: 1. It is a process that has a low risk of surgery in healthy donors and better results than with cadaveric donation; 2. in Spain, most transplant centers have developed a live donor program. and 3.
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