For and against Organ Donation and Transplantation: Intricate Facilitators and Barriers in Organ Donation Perceived by German Nurses and Doctors

Table 7

Mean values.

		ODT arguments to be communicated to relatives		Own perception of ODT barriers		Assumed ODT barriers of relatives		Stress barriers: medical reasons	Ethical barriers to ODT
		Personal ethical facilitators	Concrete altruistic effects	Transcendent barriers	Immanent barriers	Transcendent barriers	Immanent barriers
All	Mean	2.92	1.72	2.89	2.41	2.33	1.76	2.46	2.10
	SD	0.69	0.72	0.87	0.89	0.80	0.62	0.67	0.59
Adequately informed about regulatory aspects of ODT
Yes (92%)	Mean	2.87	1.68	2.91	2.41	2.32	1.76	2.43	2.12
	SD	0.68	0.67	0.86	0.89	0.79	0.59	0.66	0.56
No (8%)	Mean	3.40	2.21	2.63	2.46	2.46	1.74	2.79	1.90
	SD	0.65	0.98	0.97	0.98	0.97	0.94	0.73	0.92
value		7,3	6,6	1,2	0,0	0,3	0,0	3,5	1,6
value		.008^1	.011^2	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	.064	n.s.
Agreement to own ODT
Yes (78%)	Mean	2.86	1.64	2.91	2.44	2.29	1.73	2.44	2.15
	SD	0.71	0.67	0.89	0.93	0.82	0.60	0.65	0.57
No (22%)	Mean	3.16	2.03	2.86	2.34	2.43	1.80	2.53	1.94
	SD	0.59	0.82	0.80	0.81	0.77	0.68	0.73	0.66
value		4.6	7.4	0.1	0.3	0.7	0.4	0.5	3.5
value		.034^3	.007^4	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	.062
SpR self-categorization
R−S− (53%)	Mean	3.07	1.79	2.91	2.44	2.21	1.75	2.47	2.15
	SD	0.68	0.71	0.96	0.94	0.83	0.67	0.63	0.62
R+S+ (47%)	Mean	2.74	1.63	2.90	2.39	2.48	1.78	2.45	2.05
	SD	0.68	0.68	0.74	0.84	0.73	0.56	0.70	0.55
value		8.5	1.9	0.0	0.1	4.4	0.1	0.0	1.3
value		.004^5	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	.037^6	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.
Gender
Women (71%)	Mean	2.89	1.71	2.87	2.41	2.29	1.72	2.58	2.07
	SD	0.69	0.72	0.87	0.89	0.78	0.60	0.63	0.56
Men (29%)	Mean	2.98	1.76	2.95	2.43	2.43	1.84	2.20	2.20
	SD	0.70	0.72	0.88	0.92	0.86	0.66	0.68	0.66
value		0.5	0.2	0.3	0.0	1.0	1.1	11.4	1.7
value		n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	<.0001^7	n.s.
Profession
Physicians (26%)	Mean	2.73	1.50	2.93	2.36	2.33	1.64	2.13	2.22
	SD	0.66	0.62	0.85	0.91	0.85	0.55	0.65	0.65
Nurses (73%)	Mean	3.00	1.81	2.88	2.43	2.33	1.80	2.59	2.06
0.60	SD	0.69	0.73	0.88	0.89	0.78	0.64	0.64	0.57
value		4.6	5.9	1.6	2.0	0.0	2.0	16.2	2.3
value		.034^8	.016^9	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	n.s.	<.0001^10	n.s.

Scores range from 1 (agreement) to 4 (disagreement). Thus, the higher the scores are, the more the HPs would disagree.
¹Cohen’s = 0.78;
²Cohen’s = 0.76;
³Cohen’s = 0.44;
⁴Cohen’s = 0.55;
⁵Cohen’s = 0.49;
⁶Cohen’s = 0.34;
⁷Cohen’s = 0.59;
⁸Cohen’s = 0.40;
⁹Cohen’s = 0.44;
¹⁰Cohen’s = 0.72.