The effect of the Iranian family approach-specific course (IrFASC) on obtaining consent from deceased organ donors' families.

Education Organ transplantation Tissue and organ procurement

Journal

Korean journal of transplantation
ISSN: 2671-8804
Titre abrégé: Korean J Transplant
Pays: Korea (South)
ID NLM: 101775609

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
31 Dec 2022
Historique:
received: 01 09 2022
revised: 25 10 2022
accepted: 28 10 2022
entrez: 27 1 2023
pubmed: 28 1 2023
medline: 28 1 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

A family approach and obtaining consent from the families of potential brain-dead donors is the most important step of organ procurement in countries where an opt-in policy applies to organ donation. Health care staff's communication skills and ability to have conversations about donation under circumstances of grief and emotion play a crucial role in families' decision-making process and, consequently, the consent rate. A new training course, called the Iranian family approach-specific course (IrFASC), was designed with the aim of improving interviewers' skills and knowledge, sharing experiences, and increasing coordinators' confidence. The IrFASC was administered to three groups of coordinators. The family consent rate of participants in the same intervals (12 months for group 1, 6 months for group 2, and 3 months for group 3) was measured before and after the training course. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to make comparisons. The family consent rate was significantly different for all participants before and after the training, increasing from 50.0% to 62.5% (P=0.037). Furthermore, sex (P=0.005), previous training (P=0.090), education (P=0.068), and duration of work as a coordinator (P=0.008) had significant effects on the difference in families' consent rates before and after IrFASC. This study showed that the IrFASC training method could improve the success of coordinators in obtaining family consent.

Sections du résumé

Background UNASSIGNED
A family approach and obtaining consent from the families of potential brain-dead donors is the most important step of organ procurement in countries where an opt-in policy applies to organ donation. Health care staff's communication skills and ability to have conversations about donation under circumstances of grief and emotion play a crucial role in families' decision-making process and, consequently, the consent rate.
Methods UNASSIGNED
A new training course, called the Iranian family approach-specific course (IrFASC), was designed with the aim of improving interviewers' skills and knowledge, sharing experiences, and increasing coordinators' confidence. The IrFASC was administered to three groups of coordinators. The family consent rate of participants in the same intervals (12 months for group 1, 6 months for group 2, and 3 months for group 3) was measured before and after the training course. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used to make comparisons.
Results UNASSIGNED
The family consent rate was significantly different for all participants before and after the training, increasing from 50.0% to 62.5% (P=0.037). Furthermore, sex (P=0.005), previous training (P=0.090), education (P=0.068), and duration of work as a coordinator (P=0.008) had significant effects on the difference in families' consent rates before and after IrFASC.
Conclusions UNASSIGNED
This study showed that the IrFASC training method could improve the success of coordinators in obtaining family consent.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36704808
doi: 10.4285/kjt.22.0041
pii: kjt-36-4-237
pmc: PMC9832597
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

237-244

Informations de copyright

© 2022 The Korean Society for Transplantation.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Conflict of Interest No potential conflict of interest relevant to this article was reported.

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Auteurs

Ehsan Radi (E)

Iranian Research Center of Organ Donation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Matin Ghanavati (M)

Iranian Research Center of Organ Donation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Batoul Khoundabi (B)

Iranian Research Center of Organ Donation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Research Center for Health Management in Mass Gathering, Red Crescent Society of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
Iran Helal Institute of Applied-Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Jamal Rahmani (J)

Iranian Research Center of Organ Donation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Cancer Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Katayoun Nahafizadeh (K)

Iranian Research Center of Organ Donation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Mahdi Shadnoush (M)

Iranian Research Center of Organ Donation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Clinical Nutrition and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Behrooz Broumand (B)

Pars Advanced and Minimally Invasive Medical Manners Research Center, Pars Hospital, Tehran, Iran.

Omid Ghobadi (O)

Iranian Research Center of Organ Donation, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

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