The study of physican attitude concerning organ donation and the level of information about laws & sanctions and the procedure in brain death

Head truma is one of the most prevalent causes of brain death in accidental events. Annually, in our country, more than 15000 of brain death cases happen because of the accidents which less than %10 of them are organ donors. The number of organs donation has been less than in Europe or America because of the transplantable donative organs there for so many people loose their lives every year. In this study, we tried to study the physican attitude as someone who can educate and encourage the people to donate organs. This cross sectional study has been done in 2007 in order to appoint the level of information & knowledge in physicians with regard to organ donation in brain death cases in kerman. self made questionaire & random sample survey have been used to collect data. The questionaire has being arranged in 3 parts which includes, demographic traits, the evaluation of view points, and the evaluation of knowledge. Generally, 400 physicians are being studied in kerman and all the questions have been completed and spss software and K & T test have been used to analyze data. In this study, about %55 of physiciansagreed agreed with the organ transplant in brain death but only about %80 agreed with filling and signing the organ donation card. %49.6 of physicians had high level of information and %11.4 had low level of information. %65.5 had positive opinions and %2.3 had negative opinions. According to an accurate study, it has shown that there is a meaningful relationship between the level of information, and attitude (P < 0.001). With due attention to the important role of physicians in organ donation process, it has strongly being recommended to have edncational planning in order to increas the level of information and reinforce their motive and their self esteem to make a better relationship with the brain death relatives.