1M.Sc. Nursing 2nd year Amity College of nursing, Amity University, Haryana
A descriptive design with quantitative research approach was used to collect data from 150 undergraduate students at a selected community, Delhi to assess the knowledge and attitude of undergraduate student's regarding organ donation by using convenient sampling technique. Data was collected by using structured knowledge questionnaire and rating scale scheduled from 19thMay till 23rdMay 2016 at selected community area Delhi. In this study Findings reveals that (52.6%) of undergraduate students were under the age group of 17 - 19 years, (58%) were females, (52%) undergraduate students belongs to Hindu religion, (98%) belongs to urban community, (70%) belongs to nuclear family, (97.3%) not attended the educational programme for organ donation, (98%) are not committed to any organization for organ donation and (96%) are not having history of organ donation.Mean, Mean Percentage and SD of knowledge of undergraduate students regarding organ donation show that out of 23 the maximum obtainable Mean score was (10.36 ± 2.93) which was 45.03%. It reveals that undergraduate students had average knowledge regarding organ donation.
Attitude regarding organ donation shows at most (65.33%) of the undergraduate students had the positive attitude, (34.66%) had neutral attitude and no one had negative attitude regarding organ donation. It reveals that most of the undergraduate students had the positive attitude regarding organ donation.
organ donation, knowledge, attitude
