Social aspects of the organ donation in Slovenia, 2017

Centre for Social Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana in cooperation with several organizations, researched the social aspects of organ and tissue donation in Slovenia. With the research the authors tried to find ways to narrow the gap between organ demand and supply under the precondition that organ transplantation remains totally voluntary, depending on the willingness of people to donate their organs or the organs of their loved ones after death to others who need them. On the online panels' JazVem.si population of Valicon company, using the nonprobability sampling, authors conducted a pilot survey with the purpose of testing the questionnaire. The questionnaire was answered by the 1007 active members of the online panel, aged 18-75 years. The results of the research provide an informative insight into the issue of organ donation and guide further research activities within the framework of the project. The questions include the following topics: willingness to donate organs (own, close ones), registration in the register of organ donors, conversation about organ donation, informing about organ donation after death, attitudes related to organ donation, opinions about the attitudes of others towards organ donation, familiarity with organ donation, religiosity and belief, campaign visibility. Afterward, the authors also carried out a survey in the field with an updated questionnaire, the data of which are also available in ADP (see ADP IDNo: DORGST17).