NCT02279797

Bone Marrow Donation

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices About Bone Marrow Donation Among Medical Students and Medical Staff

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: International Institute of Rescue Research and Education · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study evaluates the knowledge, attitude and practice about bone marrow donation among medical students and medical staff.

Detailed description

In Europe the biggest database of bone marrow donors have Germany - more than 5.5 million people registered, in Poland is only 700 thousand people, and a total worldwide 24 million people willing to donate bone marrow. In the study the investigators are examining how medical students and medical staff feel about the issues of bone marrow donation, especially: bone marrow shortage, methods of donation. The investigators are planning to focus on the following specific questions: What is the level of knowledge about bone marrow donation among participants? What are the sociodemographic, sociocultural and socioeconomic characteristics of listed as an Organ Donor and non-listed as an Organ Donor among participants? Evidence on the role of financial and other incentives in eliciting bone marrow donation.

Conditions

• Bone Marrow Donation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	survey	Survey about Knowledge, Attitude and Practice About bone marrow donation

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-10-01
• Primary completion: 2014-11-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2014-10-31
• Last updated: 2014-10-31

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Poland