Staff Opinions and Knowledge Concerning Organ and Tissue Harvesting: an Investigation Among the Patient Care Personnel in the South-Mediterranean Region of France

The goal of this study is to evaluate the knowledge of paramedical and medical care personnel concerning organ and tissue donations, as well as their opinions on this activity.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Tissue and Organ Procurement
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Questionnaires

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 1859

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Marseille, France, 13915
    • AP-HM Hôpital Nord
  • Montpellier Cedex 05, France, 34295
    • Hôpital Guy de Chauliac, CHU de Montpellier
  • Nice, France, 06003
    • Hôpital Cimiez, CHU de Nice
  • Nimes, France, 30029
    • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Health care personnel in South-Mediterranean France

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• paramedical or medical care personnel from a participating center
• participates in organ donor activities
• works in a department with organ donor activity

Exclusion Criteria:

• personnel with no contact with organ donor activities
• personnel from non-participating centers
• refuses to participate

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
all 5000 subjects; this is a purely descriptive study with one group	Other: Questionnaires; The subjects are asked to fill out a questionnaire on the personal and professional situations, organ donation legislation, what happens in everyday practice, their own experience with donating their own organs, and what position they take.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
VAS Negative/positive feeling	Visual Analog Scale from 0 to 100 where 0 is negative and 100 is positive.	1 day

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: March 1, 2010
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 1, 2012
• Study Completion (Actual): July 1, 2012

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 30, 2010
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 30, 2010
• First Posted (Estimate): October 1, 2010

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): March 25, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 24, 2015
• Last Verified: March 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: PHRC-I/2009/CB-01; 1391089 (Other Identifier: France: Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés)