Someone In Family Research Articles

Socioeconomic status, perceptions and obesity among adolescents in Jordan.

IntroductionPrevalence of obesity among adolescents constitutes a serious public health problem. We aimed to investigate the association between socioeconomic factors and obesity perceptions, and prevalence of overweight and obesity among school adolescents.MethodsA cross-sectional study that included students 12 to 17 years old participating from six schools that were randomly selected in Northern Jordan. Body mass index (BMI) measurements and interview questions were completed by trained researchers. A total of 701 were successfully involved in the analysis.ResultsStudents involved were 53.6% males and 46.4% females. Students with normal BMI had a mean BMI of 21.45 (+1.76). Those who were obese, or overweight were 202 (28.8%) students and had a BMI of 29.1 (+4.05). Family monthly income, mother's education and working status among other socioeconomic status factors were significantly associated with children’s overweight or obesity. Perceptions about obesity including meal choices, interest in self body weight, considering someone in family as obese and instructions at school were statistically significant as well.ConclusionFamily factors, adolescents' pocket money and perceptions about obesity were significant predictors of obesity among adolescents in Jordan. Effective intervention strategies should be implemented in schools and other primary care settings to reduce the relatively high prevalence of adolescent's obesity observed in this study.

Willingness to Become Deceased Organ Donors among Post-graduate Students in Selected Colleges in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Introduction: Globally, there is a discrepancy between demand and availability of organs for transplantation. Transplantation is done from a living donor as well as a brain-dead/deceased donor. However, the World Health Organization (WHO) encourages deceased donor transplantation, since there is no risk to the donor. Although, the Transplant Act of Nepal 2016 opened the doors for deceased donor organ transplantation, the rate of transplantation from deceased donors is very low. Thus, this study assesses factors associated with willingness for deceased organ donation among post-graduate students of law, medicine, and mass communication streams.
 Methods: A total of 9 colleges, 3 from each specialty were selected via lottery method. The total sample size calculated was 440. Self- administered questionnaire was used to collect the data. 170, 140 and 130 forms were distributed in law, medicine and mass communication respectively via convenient sampling. Multivariate analysis among the variables that had p- value <0.05 in bivariate analysis was carried out to find out the strongest predictors of willingness to be deceased organ donors.
 Results: In all, 53.2% were willing to become deceased organ donors. Family permission in one's wish to donate organs, having someone in family with chronic disease, having attended any conference or general talk on organ donation, knowing a live organ donor and knowing that body will not be left disfigured after organ extraction were found to be the strongest predictors for willingness to be deceased organ donors; while lack of awareness was reported as the main barrier for the same reason.
 Conclusion: There is a need for extensive awareness programs and new strategies to motivate individuals and family members for organ donation.
 Key words: • Deceased Organ Donation • Willingness • Kathmandu • Nepal • Organ Transplantation • Living Donor • Deceased Donor
 
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Knowledge and Attitudes of Military Nursing Student Toward Organ Donation

Introduction: Transplantation is still the acceptance to treatment organ failure. Like other countries Thailand also has organ shortage problem. Increasing the number of organ donors is essential among young generation. The knowledge and attitude of future nursing student are importance to increase organ donors. Objective: The purpose of this descriptive research was to study the relationships between knowledge and attitude of military nursing student toward organ donation. Methods: The target population were 862 nursing students from the Royal Thai Arm Forced (RTAF) Nursing College. The research instruments were three forms of questionnaire; the personal data, the knowledge and attitude toward organ donation. The reliability was accepted as 0.80 and 0.86. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistic, Chi-square test and Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficient. Results: The knowledge of organ donation was significantly associated with the age (p< 0.001), year of studying (p< 0.001), experience of knowing someone in family donate liver (< 0.01), and data or information of donation receiving from relatives (p< 0.05). Attitudes toward organ donation was significantly associated with gender (p< 0.05), carrying donor card (p< 0.001), the experience of knowing someone in family was a deceased donor (p< 0.05) or living liver donation (p< 0.001). The correlation between knowledge and attitude toward organ donation are significant positive correlation (p< 0.01). Conclusion: Nursing students need the knowledge and gain experience of organ donation to help and change attitude toward organ donation.