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

Year of Research:  2017

Keywords: health, illness, organ donations, organ
transplantation, stimulative factors, inhibitory factors, behavioural changes,
diseases, organ donation, 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. The data was collected within the framework of the
survey Slovenian Public Opinion 2017/1: European Values Study. 1076 adult
residents of Slovenia participated in the field survey. The questions
include the following topics: informing about organ donation after death,
willingness to donate organs (own, close ones), registration in the register of
organ donors, conversation about organ donation, attitudes related to organ
donation, opinions about the attitudes of others towards organ donation,
familiarity with organ donation.

Prior to this survey, a pilot survey with the purpose of testing the
questionnaire was conducted on population of members of the online panel of
Valicon company. The questionnaire was answered by the 1007 active members of
the online panel, aged 18-75 years. The data is also available in ADP for
secondary use (ADP IDNo:
DORGSP17).

Cite the data:

Kamin, T., Ule, M., Živoder, A., Berzelak, J. and Kurdija, S. (2024).
Social aspects of the organ donation in Slovenia, 2017: Analysis of the
stimulating and inhibitory factors for designing programs to achieve
behavioural change – field survey [Data file]. Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljani
= University of Ljubljana, Arhiv družboslovnih podatkov = Slovenian Social
Science Data Archives. ADP - IDNo: DORGST17. https://doi.org/10.17898/ADP_DORGST17_V1