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Factors Influencing Families' Decision-Making for Organ Donation in Hunan Province, China
1Department of Pharmacy, The Third Affiliated Hospital, Central South University, Hunan Province, China.
Background:
In 2010, the Chinese government started a pilot project of donation after Chinese citizens' death. Seeking the consent of the families of potential donors is an important task in the organ donation process.
Objective:
We aimed to explore the factors that influence the families' decision-making for organ donation.
Methods:
We performed a content analysis of 30 semistructured in-depth interviews with immediate family members who made the decision for an organ donation. The interviewees were asked questions such as how the decision to donate was made, what factors influenced the decision, and whether the decision was rejected by relatives and friends.
Results:
The interviewees were the donors' parent (15; 50%), spouse (9; 30%), brother (3; 10%) or son (3; 10%), including 18 men and 12 women, with a mean age of 41.6 (standard deviation, 10.7) years; rural households accounted for 83.3%. Through analyzing the interview notes, 17 factors ware mentioned by interviewees, and 3 types of decision-making in organ donors' families were obtained. Then, the factors affecting the decisions of the donor families were classified into 3 categories and 11 subcategories.
Conclusions:
Factors influencing the families' decision-making for organ donation were analyzed preliminarily in this study.