Attitudes towards organ donation in Hong Kong

In this paper, a survey is conducted to study the attitudes of Hong Kong re sidents towards organ donation after death. It is found that 60.3% of the r espondents are willing to donate organs, which is comparable to those cited in the literature. The results also indicate that the willingness to donat e is related to age, occupation and attitude. A factor analysis of attitude s yielded four factors, including form of burial, altruism, lack of underst anding on organ donation and lack of confidence in professional conduct of medical doctors. Further analysis of the factor scores provides information that is useful to the design of effective public education programs in org an donation. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.