Investigation of middle school students' opinions about organ donation

The aim of this study was to investigate the opinions of 7th and 8th grade students about organ donation. The sample of the study consisted of 850 students in three middle schools in urban and rural areas of Bingöl city center. The data were obtained through a questionnaire which consisted of open-ended questions that were developed to enable students to evaluate their socio-demographic characteristics and information about organ donation and to express their thoughts. SPSS 16.0 package program and descriptive statistics (percentage and frequency analysis) were used to analyze and interpret the data. The majority of the participants (81.6%) stated that they wanted to get information about organ transplantation and donation. 75,4% stated that they wanted to get this information from doctors. Students stated that information sources about organ donation were more internet (52.0%) and textbook (51.2%). 35,07% of the students stated that they want to donate organ through the 'Religious Emotions c while% 28,36 of them stated that they want to donate the organ,% 12,11'% 11,05 of them ' They stated that they did not want to donate organs because of being against the donation.