Effects of structured education program on organ donor designation of nursing students and their families: A randomized controlled trial.
Murakami M, Fukuma S, et al.Clinical Transplantation 2016 [record in progress].
Aims
To determine the effect of an education programs designed for nursing students on changing attitudes and behaviours towards deceased organ donation.
Interventions
Participants were randomly assigned to either receive an education program consisting of a classroom lecture, small group discussion and a brief information booklet (intervention group), or three information booklets (control group).
Participants
203 Japanese nursing students from Saku Central Hospital Nursing School who were not previously designated organ donors.
Outcomes
The primary outcome measured was self-reported organ donor designation. Secondary outcomes measured were proportions of students who discussed deceased organ donation with their family, whose family member provided consent for organ donation, who obtained approval of the family to the student’s consent for organ donation, and who expressed willingness to the following; provide consent for organ donation, donate organs after brain death, donate organs after circulatory death, to approve organ removal from a deceased family donor with organ donor designation, to approve organ removal from a
Follow-up
Day 39
CET Conclusions
This RCT investigates the effect of an education programme on changing attitudes and behaviour towards organ donation. Participants were Japanese nursing students who were allocated according to a computer generated sequence to the education programme or three information booklets. The education programme consisted of a lecture by a transplant nephrologist, small group discussions and an information booklet. No power calculation was conducted and 205 students were allocated of whom 2 were excluded from the analyses. The study found no difference between groups in terms of the number of participants who provided consent for organ donation.
Data analysis
Modified intention-to-treat analysis
Trial registration
UMIN Clinical Trials Registry - UMIN000014507