Background. Significant facilitators and barriers to organ donation and transplantation remain in the general public and even in\nhealth professionals. Negative attitudes of HPs have been identified as the most significant barrier to actual ODT. The purpose of\nthis paper was hence to investigate to what extent HPs (physicians and nurses) experience such facilitators and barriers in ODT\nand to what extent they are intercorrelated. We thus combined single causes to circumscribed factors of respective barriers and\nfacilitators and analyzed them for differences regarding profession, gender, spiritual/religious self-categorization, and self-estimated\nknowledge of ODT and their mutual interaction. Methods. By the use of questionnaires we investigated intricate facilitators and\nbarriers to organ donation experienced byHPs (n = 175; 73% nurses, 27%physicians) in around tenwards at theUniversityHospital\nof Munich. Results. Our study confirms a general high agreement with the importance of ODT. Nevertheless, we identified both\nfacilitators and barriers in the following fields: (1) knowledge of ODT and willingness to donate own organs, (2) ethical delicacies\nin ODT, (3) stressors to handle ODT in the hospital, and (4) individual beliefs and self-estimated religion/spirituality. Conclusion.\nAttention to the intricacy of stressors and barriers in HPs continues to be a high priority focus for the availability of donor organs.
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