Attitudes of Australian Chiropractic Students Toward Whole Body Donation: A Cross-Sectional Study
Attitudes of Australian Chiropractic Students Toward Whole Body Donation: A Cross-Sectional Study
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10.1002/ase.1390
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发表时间：
2014-03-01
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7.3
通讯作者：
Strkalj, Goran
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作者：
Alexander, Michelle;Marten, Mathew;Strkalj, Goran
尸体在解剖学教育中占有重要地位。在澳大利亚，用于解剖学教育的尸体只能通过捐赠获得。为了深入了解解剖实验室的教育动态以及促进遗体捐赠计划和感恩节仪式，了解学生对遗体捐赠的态度是很重要的。在这个横断面研究中，我们调查了麦考瑞大学一年级、二年级和五年级脊医学生对遗体捐赠的态度。麦考瑞大学脊椎指压专业的学生有四个学期的解剖学课程，其中包括以尸体为基础的检控标本教学。一份调查问卷记录了受访者的人口统计数据和对遗体捐赠的态度：个人、亲属和陌生人。研究发现，种族和宗教会影响人们对遗体捐赠的态度，澳大利亚学生更愿意捐赠陌生人的遗体，而无神论者和不可知论者总体上更愿意捐赠。此外，随着研究年限的增加，捐赠自己或家人遗体的意愿也会下降，这表明在解剖实验室中接触尸体可能会产生负面影响。然而，这只有在控制了年龄之后才成立。因此，观察和处理被起诉的标本的影响，这是澳大利亚解剖学课程的标准，可能不如解剖尸体那么强烈。建议解剖学家和教育工作者为学生准备以尸体为基础的教学，并在学生如何处理尸体方面表现出对文化差异的敏感性，在告知不同社区有关遗体捐赠计划和设计感恩节仪式时。科学通报，21(3):391 - 391。(c) 2013年美国解剖学家协会。
Cadavers play an important role in anatomy education. In Australia, bodies for anatomy education are acquired only through donations. To gain insight into educational dynamics in an anatomy laboratory as well as to facilitate body donation programs and thanksgiving ceremonies, it is important to understand students' attitudes toward body donation. In this cross-sectional study, the attitudes of Macquarie University's first, second, and fifth year chiropractic students toward body donation were investigated. Macquarie University chiropractic students have a four semester long anatomy program, which includes cadaver-based instruction on prosected specimens. A questionnaire was used to record respondents' demographics and attitudes toward body donation: personal, by a relative, and by a stranger. It was found that ethnicity and religion affect attitudes toward body donation, with Australian students being more willing to donate a stranger's body and atheists and agnostics being more willing to donate in general. Furthermore, willingness to donate one's own or a family member's body decreases as year of study increases, suggesting a possible negative impact of exposure to cadavers in the anatomy laboratory. This was only true, however, after controlling for age. Thus, the impact of viewing and handling prosected specimens, which is the norm in anatomy classes in Australia, may not be as strong as dissecting cadavers. It is suggested that anatomists and educators prepare students for cadaver-based instruction as well as exhibit sensitivity to cultural differences in how students approach working with cadavers, when informing different communities about body donation programs and in devising thanksgiving ceremonies. Anat Sci Educ 7: 117-123. (c) 2013 American Association of Anatomists.