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Level of knowledge, belief and altruism towards organ donation among final year students in the faculty of medicine at University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Higher medical technological development and better awareness has affected the public’s perception on organ donation positively. One of the strategic plans by the Ministry of Health is to target the younger generation to achieve long-term changes in this issue through a variety of appropriate chan...

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Main Authors: Yuzana, Mohd Yusop, Nazrie, Saini, Noor Ibrahim, Mohamed Sakian
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spelling my-unisza-ir.66482022-03-29T08:11:32Z http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/6648/ Level of knowledge, belief and altruism towards organ donation among final year students in the faculty of medicine at University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Yuzana, Mohd Yusop Nazrie, Saini Noor Ibrahim, Mohamed Sakian R Medicine (General) Higher medical technological development and better awareness has affected the public’s perception on organ donation positively. One of the strategic plans by the Ministry of Health is to target the younger generation to achieve long-term changes in this issue through a variety of appropriate channels. This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge, belief and altruism towards organ donation among final year students from the Faculty of Medicine in University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Questionnaires were distributed to 190 respondents from two programs involving 173 (91.1%) medical students and 17 (8.9%) nursing students via systematic random sampling. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient value for belief was 0.626 and 0.853 for altruism. This study showed that level knowledge of students with mean score of 60.92 (S.P ± 8.79) was at a moderate level for 109 (57.4%), 80 students (42.1%) at a high level and one for (0.5%) at low level. The overall students level of belief with the mean score of 27.00 (± 4.93 S.P) was positive with 110 (57.9%) while 80 students (42.1%) with negative belief. The altruistic level with mean score 35.46 (S.P ± 10.76) of 146 students (76.8%) at a moderate level, 41 students (21.6%) at high level and only 3 (1.6%) at low level. In correlation analysis, there are relationship between level of knowledge towards altruistic and knowledge towards beliefs (p <0.05). However, there is no significant relationship between knowledge with beliefs because of the value of p> 0.05. In conclusion, the level of knowledge should be further enhanced among medical and nursing students with the hope that increased knowledge will positively influence the belief system and the altruistic behaviour of respondents regarding the concept of organ donation. 2019-12 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/6648/1/FH02-FBK-19-36274.pdf Yuzana, Mohd Yusop and Nazrie, Saini and Noor Ibrahim, Mohamed Sakian (2019) Level of knowledge, belief and altruism towards organ donation among final year students in the faculty of medicine at University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 5 (12). pp. 93-101. ISSN 2455-3662 https://doi.org/10.36713/epra2013
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Yuzana, Mohd Yusop
Nazrie, Saini
Noor Ibrahim, Mohamed Sakian
Level of knowledge, belief and altruism towards organ donation among final year students in the faculty of medicine at University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
description Higher medical technological development and better awareness has affected the public’s perception on organ donation positively. One of the strategic plans by the Ministry of Health is to target the younger generation to achieve long-term changes in this issue through a variety of appropriate channels. This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge, belief and altruism towards organ donation among final year students from the Faculty of Medicine in University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Questionnaires were distributed to 190 respondents from two programs involving 173 (91.1%) medical students and 17 (8.9%) nursing students via systematic random sampling. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient value for belief was 0.626 and 0.853 for altruism. This study showed that level knowledge of students with mean score of 60.92 (S.P ± 8.79) was at a moderate level for 109 (57.4%), 80 students (42.1%) at a high level and one for (0.5%) at low level. The overall students level of belief with the mean score of 27.00 (± 4.93 S.P) was positive with 110 (57.9%) while 80 students (42.1%) with negative belief. The altruistic level with mean score 35.46 (S.P ± 10.76) of 146 students (76.8%) at a moderate level, 41 students (21.6%) at high level and only 3 (1.6%) at low level. In correlation analysis, there are relationship between level of knowledge towards altruistic and knowledge towards beliefs (p <0.05). However, there is no significant relationship between knowledge with beliefs because of the value of p> 0.05. In conclusion, the level of knowledge should be further enhanced among medical and nursing students with the hope that increased knowledge will positively influence the belief system and the altruistic behaviour of respondents regarding the concept of organ donation.
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author Yuzana, Mohd Yusop
Nazrie, Saini
Noor Ibrahim, Mohamed Sakian
author_facet Yuzana, Mohd Yusop
Nazrie, Saini
Noor Ibrahim, Mohamed Sakian
author_sort Yuzana, Mohd Yusop
title Level of knowledge, belief and altruism towards organ donation among final year students in the faculty of medicine at University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_short Level of knowledge, belief and altruism towards organ donation among final year students in the faculty of medicine at University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_full Level of knowledge, belief and altruism towards organ donation among final year students in the faculty of medicine at University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_fullStr Level of knowledge, belief and altruism towards organ donation among final year students in the faculty of medicine at University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Level of knowledge, belief and altruism towards organ donation among final year students in the faculty of medicine at University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
title_sort level of knowledge, belief and altruism towards organ donation among final year students in the faculty of medicine at university kebangsaan malaysia, kuala lumpur, malaysia
publishDate 2019
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