Authors of Research: Tanja Kamin, Mirjana Ule, Andreja Živoder and
Jernej Berzelak

Year of Research:  2017

Keywords: organ donations, organ transplantation, behavioural
changes, stimulative factors, inhibitory factors, health, illness, health
screening

Researchers form Centre for Social Psychology (UL FDV) in cooperation
with several organizations, researched the social aspects of organ and tissue
donation in Slovenia. With the research the authors tried to find ways to
narrow the gap between organ demand and supply under the precondition that
organ transplantation remains totally voluntary, depending on the willingness
of people to donate their organs or the organs of their loved ones after death
to others who need them. A pilot survey with the purpose of testing the
questionnaire was conducted on population of members of the online panel
JazVem.si of Valicon company, using the nonprobability sampling. The
questionnaire was answered by the 1007 active members of the online panel, aged
18-75 years. The results of the research provide an informative insight into
the issue of organ donation and guide further research activities within the
framework of the project. The questions include the following topics:
willingness to donate organs own, close ones), registration in the register of
organ donors, conversation about organ donation, informing about organ donation
after death, attitudes related to organ donation, opinions about the attitudes
of others towards organ donation, familiarity with organ donation, religiosity
and belief, campaign visibility.

Afterward, the authors also carried out a survey in the field with an
updated questionnaire, the data of which are also available in ADP for
secondary use (ADP IDNo: DORGST17).

Cite the data:

Kamin, T., Ule, M., Živoder, A. and Berzelak, J. (2023). Social aspects
of the organ donation in Slovenia, 2017: Analysis of the stimulating and
inhibitory factors for designing programs to achieve behavioural change –
online panel [Data file]. Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljani = University of
Ljubljana, Slovenian Social Science Data Archives (ADP). ADP - IDNo: DORGSP17. https://doi.org/10.17898/ADP_DORGSP17_V1