College Students Knowledge of OrganTissueEye and Blood Donation

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College Students Knowledge of Organ/Tissue/Eye
and Blood Donation

• Cheryl Hayes, RN
• Mary Rhinehart, RN
• Nancy Stoll, RN

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Affiliating Agency

• Upstate New York Transplant Services, Inc.
• (UNYTS)
• 110 Broadway
• Buffalo, New York 14203
• Michael Cleveland Hill, M.S.
• Director of Education
• Upstate New York Transplant Services, Inc.
• 110 Broadway
• Buffalo, NY

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Agency

• Upstate New York Transplant Services, Inc (UNYTS)
• Non for profit organization
• Established in December 1981 (organ/tissue)
• 1993 eye and research society joined UNYTS
• 2005 UNYTS became part of the Buffalo/Niagara
  Medical Campus
• 2007 Community Blood Banking Service

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Agency Continued

• UNYTS Provides Service to
• 1.3 million population in Western New York
• 8 counties
• Twenty eight hospitals
• www.unyts.org

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Purpose of Study

• Identify knowledge of the Daemen College student
  in regards to organ, tissue, eye, and blood
  donation.

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Community

• Demographic Community
• Geographic Community

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Approached Used to Assess Community

• Newmans System Model
• Epidemiological Triangle
• Descriptive-Observational Review

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Community Assessment

• People
• Daemen is a coed college
• Undergraduate 2006 enrollment greater then 1500
  students
• Predominantly a female population
• Majority of the undergraduate students age being
  18-24
• Multiple ethnic backgrounds
• Any religious affiliation

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Community Structures

• Government/Management
• Daemen College Student Association
• Leadership and Empowerment for the Active
  Development of Students (LEAD)
• Special Interest Groups
• Internship Programs

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• Informal Power Structures
• Multitude of groups and activities
• Bulletin board
• Flyers
• Website

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• Communication
• Email
• Cell phone
• Blackboard (Web based class)
• Website Whats Happening Page

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Health Risk Factors

• Social
• Family
• Financial
• Personal Pressures
• www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov

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Health Risk Factors Continued

• Maturity
• Age
• Gender
• Emotional and Physical Stress
• Lack of Life Experience
• Schoenherr (2007)

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Health Risk Factors Continued

• Can Lead to
• High risk behavior
• Drug use
• Excessive drinking
• Unsafe sex practice
• Violence
• Physical/Mental Health Problems
• Deckro et al. (2002)

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• Combat Risk Factors
• Daemen College Health Services
• Crisis Services
• Healthcare Options

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Definition Of Community

• Daemen College Students
• Between the ages of 18-39
• Presently attending Daemen College
• Able to read, write and understand English

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Survey and Record Review

• 112 students met inclusion criteria
• Survey
• Demographic information
• Knowledge of organ, tissue, eye, and blood
  donation
• Knowledge about becoming a registered donor

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Description of Survey Process

• Surveys were distributed by the nurse
  researchers at the Wick Center, located at
  Daemen College
• 177 Surveys distributed and 113 returned to a
  locked box
• One discarded
• Surveys completed were answered strictly
  voluntary and anonymously

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Survey Results

• 92 of students surveyed were female
• Majority of the age range 18-24 years
• Total age range 18-39 years

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Survey Results Continued

• Donation Decisions
• Total 40 of the males respondents and total 50
  of the female respondents making a decision
• The majority have either signed a drivers
  license or spoke with family

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Survey Results Continued

• Donation
• 36 of the students knew someone who has received
  an organ or tissue transplant
• 60 being male
• 55 knew someone who has been an organ/tissue
  donor
• 75 being male

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Survey Results Continued

• Blood Donation
• 50 of students have donated blood
• 49 of students have known someone requiring a
  blood transfusion

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Survey Results Continued

• Organ Donation
• 8 of the student respondents knew someone who
  died while waiting for a transplant

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Survey Results Continued

• Organ Procurement Organization (OPO)
• 29 of the student respondents knew about their
  local Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) called
  UNYTS

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Community Strengths

• Students have access to communication in various
  media
• Willingness of Daemen College students to
  participate in survey

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Community Strengths Continued

• Willingness of UNYTS to offer education to
  students, family and staff about donation
• High population of health sciences students who
  will have the opportunity to impact the general
  population about donation options
• Existing Internship program Daemen College

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Community Weaknesses

• Lack of knowledge by Daemen students regarding
  donation and services provided by the local
  OPO/UNYTS
• Daemen website information is not available
  regarding UNYTS or options about donation
• Internship program that is offered by Daemen
  College currently does not have a collaboration
  with the local OPO/UNYTS

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Analysis of Data

• Organ, Tissue, Eye, and Blood Donation
• 48 of Daemen students have made a choice about
  donation
• Drivers license
• Discussed with family

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Analysis of Data Continued

• Signed Drivers License at DMV
• One-third of drivers have a signed donor card
• DMV employee may not ask if driver wants to sign
  the card
• DMV employee may not be able to answer donation
  related questions
• Donation information provided by the DMV may be
  inconsistent
• Baughn, Rodrigue, Cornell (2007)

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Analysis of Data Continued

• 71 of Daemen Students are unaware of their Organ
  Procurement Organization, UNYTS
• 52 Of Daemen Students have not made any donation
  decisions

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Analysis of Data Continued

• Young women 17-19 are more likely to donate blood
  than young men the same age
• Nurturing
• Selfless
• Kind act
• www.healthywomen.org/healthtopics

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Analysis of Data Continued

• Barriers that prevent blood donation
• Location
• Knowledge deficit about blood donation

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Analysis of Data Continued

• Research Results
• Female Daemen students ages 18-24 are more likely
  to donate then the male students 18-24
• Majority of the male population knew someone that
  was a recipient of either organ tissue or blood
  donation
• Majority of the male population also knew an
  organ donor

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Analysis of Data Continued

• Results
• Majority (52) have not made a decision about
  donation
• May be due to lack of motivation
• Young adult not inciting the discussion
• Lack of knowledge
• Relinquishing control over self
• Hyde White (2007)

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Conclusion

• There is an opportunity to increase the knowledge
  about donation and UNYTS at Daemen College
• Decisions that influence donation
• gender
• Family dynamics

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Conclusion continued

• Daemen College offers multiple resources of
  communication for promoting education
• At this time, there is no education program at
  Daemen College promoting donation to the students

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Recommendations

• Develop mutual beneficial relationship between
  Daemen College and UNYTS
• Ongoing education program to promote the
  knowledge among Daemen College students about
  organ, tissue, eye, and blood donation
• Implement an education program for Daemen College
  faculty that can be incorporated into the
  respective program curriculum through actively
  implementing a UNYTS internship program

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Development Plan for UNYTS

• Creation of a UNYTS Intern program.

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Goal

• Increase the knowledge of Daemen college students
  regarding organ, tissue, eye and blood donation
  and the UNYTS organization
• Knowledge of donation and UNYTS can be shared
  with others through the students and faculty at
  Daemen College

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Interventions

• The establishment of a UNYTS Internship program
  at Daemen College.
• Marketing
• Education

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Interventions Continued

• Utilize the Internship program to support ongoing
  educational needs surrounding donation by
  planning future curriculum offerings as well as
  by applying marketing strategies which promote
  donation and the UNYTS organization

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Implementation

• Contact Maureen Huber, the Director of Education
  and Career Development
• Create an Internship position
• responsibilities to ensure for planning,
  conducting, and managing successful marketing of
  UNYTS and the application of the learning
  experience for the interns development.

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Implementation Continued

• Customize the educational experience for the
  Daemen College students by offering an
  Implementation Toolkit as a resource for the
  intern
• To further support awareness of the impact of
  organ, tissue, eye, and blood donation, include a
  presentation from a volunteer donor or recipient
  to be provided by UNYTS.

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Implementation Continued

• Increasing the visibility of UNYTS on campus
• Blood drives
• Recreational activities
• Campus health office
• Link the Daemen College website to the UNYTS
  website

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Evaluation

• The Internship program will be evaluated for
  continuation based on feedback
• Interns/Development of an evaluation process
• Director of Cooperative Education and Career
  Development
• UNYTS Educational Director

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Evaluation Continued

• The original survey tool may be distributed at
  the end of two semesters to assess the knowledge
  base following implementation of the preceding
  recommendations.

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Questions??