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Motivational Factors Affecting Body and Organ Donation in China Identified Based on Grounded Theory
Yunfeng Wang1, Ping Dong2, Yukun Zhou2
1Library, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
Background:
In recent decades, China has experienced a shortage of donated bodies and organs for dissection during medical education and clinical transplantation. This study investigated and analyzed motivational factors affecting body and organ donation in China.
Methodology:
Thirty-three body and organ donation volunteers were interviewed in-depth, and their donation motivations were investigated. The data were decomposed, detected, compared, conceptualized, and categorized using open, correlation, and selective coding based on grounded theory.
Results:
The results were used to construct a model that elucidates the foundation of body and organ donation based on "humanistic medical care" and "death in existentialism" as driving forces for body and organ donors.
Conclusions:
This study provides new theoretical perspectives that contribute to interpreting behavior related to body and organ donation and offers a theoretical basis for related policymaking and promotional work.
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