Knowledge, Attitude, Perception Among Students, Teachers And Lay People Regarding Human Dignity And Assessment Of Barriers To Whole Body Donation-A Cross Sectional Study.
Journal Title: PARIPEX-Indian Journal of Research - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
- Anatomy is the study of structure of human body and forms the basic subject studied by undergraduate and postgraduate students. Only source for the cadavers in the medical institutions will be unclaimed bodies and few donated bodies. Thus it is imperative that our medical fraternity and health care professionals has to support and give awareness regarding voluntary body donation. OBJECTIVES 1.To determine the knowledge, attitude and perception of medical students (2nd year), teachers in medical college and laypersons of Dakshina Kannada and neighboring districts, regarding human dignity in order to determine their view about voluntary body donation. 2. To assess the barriers to whole body donation. METHODOLOGYThis cross sectional study, was conducted on consented students, teachers and in lay men by a structured questionnaire to assess the knowledge, attitude and perception towards dignity and voluntary body donation. The obtained data was analyzed through descriptive statistics. RESULTS – The data analysis shows that the teachers are having significant knowledge regarding human dignity when compared with laypersons and students. There is no significant difference in the mean attitude regarding human dignity in teachers VS students when compared with laypersons. The perception regarding human dignity is more in lay persons when compared with teachers and students. CONCLUSION - This study insist to conduct more organized efforts like body donation camp to raise the awareness about willed body donation. The donors and their families have to be given social honour, recognition and appropriate incentives like health care facilities
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Bindhu. S, Vina Vaswani
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