The Examination Of The Classroom Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Organ Donation In Terms Of Different Variables (The Sample Of Ardahan City) Cover Image

Sınıf Öğretmenlerinin Organ Bağışı Tutumlarının Farklı Değişkenler Açısından İncelenmesi
The Examination Of The Classroom Teachers’ Attitudes Toward Organ Donation In Terms Of Different Variables (The Sample Of Ardahan City)

Author(s): Alptürk Akçöltekin
Subject(s): Education, Media studies, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
Published by: Kültür Ajans Tanıtım ve Organizasyon
Keywords: Organ donation; Classroom teacher; Biology Education;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate attitudes of class teachers towards organ donation. Survey model was used in this descriptive study. To this end, organ donation attitude scale in conjunction with a set of demographic questions was applied to a total of 93 class teachers employed in Ardahan. Results obtained from the study revealed that class teachers take a positive attitude about organ donation. When attitudes of teachers towards organ donation are considered with regards to demographic variances, no statistically important difference was found between the variances of sex and homeland of teachers and their attitudes towards organ donation, in contrast to a statistically meaningful difference between the variances of age, service time and source of knowledge acquisition and attitudes towards organ donation. The statistical difference found between age of teachers and their attitudes about organ donation bounds up with teachers under 25 years of age and those having ages of between 26 and 35 years, in spite of the difference determined for variances of service time and organ donation for teachers having period of service under 1 year or between 6 and 10 years. The statistical difference between source of knowledge acquisition and organ donation is, on the other hand, caused by teachers who keep up with press and visual media. According to results obtained, data regarding ages and service times of teachers are in good agreement and the positive attitudes of teachers about organ donation is associated with visual media and press as mass communication.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 52-63
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Turkish