STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

A study to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding organ donation among the college
students in selected colleges at Hisar with a view to develop a self-instructional module.

OBJECTIVES

1. To assess the knowledge regarding organ donation among college students.

2. To assess the attitude regarding blood and organ donation among college students.

3. To find relationship between knowledge and attitude regarding organ donation among
college students.

4. To find the association between the level of knowledge regarding organ donation among
college students with their selected demographic variables.

5. To find the association between the level of attitudes regarding organ donation among
college students with their selected demographic variables.

OPERATIONAL DEFINITION

1. KNOWLEDGE: In this study knowledge refers to the level of understanding of the

college students regarding organ donations.
2. ATTITUDE: In this study expressed feeling of college students regarding organ
donation.
3. ORGAN DONATION: Organ donation is the removal of specific organs of the
human body from a person who has recently died, or from a living donor, for the
purpose of transplanting them in to other persons.
4. COLLEGE STUDENTS: It refers to any individual enrolled either on a part
time or full time basis in any undergraduate course in a college or university.
5. SELF INSTRUCTIONAL MODULE: In this study, it is a printed material consists
of pictorial diagrams and information regarding organ donation which gives more
knowledge regarding organ donation.

HYPOTHESES
H1 - There will be a significant relationship between the knowledge and attitude score of
college students regarding organ donation.
H2 - There will be a significant association between level of knowledge with the selected
demographic variables of college students.
H3 - There will be a significant association between level of attitude with the selected
demographic variables of college students.

ASSUMPTIONS
1. College students may have some knowledge on organ donation.
2. Knowledge influences the attitude regarding organ donation.

DELIMITATION
The study is delimited to:
1. Sample size will be 100.
2. Data collection period will be 4 weeks.
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RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

RESEARCH APPROACH- Descriptive approach will be used to conduct this study.

RESEARCH DESIGN- Non experimental descriptive survey design will be adopted to
assess the knowledge and attitude of college student’s organ donation.

SETTING OF THE STUDY- The study will be conducted in selected colleges at Hisar.
POPULATION- The population selected for this study are the college students studying
in selected colleges at Hisar.

SAMPLE- The college students in between the age group of 18 - 26 years will be selected
as study samples.

SAMPLE SIZE- The sample size comprised of 100 college students.

SAMPLING TECHNIQUE- Non probability purposive sampling will be used to select

the samples.

CRITERIA FOR SAMPLE SELECTION

Inclusion Criteria-

 Both boys and girls.

 College students who are studying in Hisar.
 Those who will be available during data collection.

Exclusion criteria

 College students who will not be willing to participate in the study.

THE DESCRIPTION OF THE TOOL

PART-I: It consists of demographic variables such as age, sex, religion, type of family,
education, health information resources, registered organ donor.

PART II: It consists of structured knowledge questionnaire regarding organ donation.

Which consists of 30 multiple choice questions regarding organ donation. It has four options
among which, one is the correct response. Scores will be interrupted as follows:
Adequate >75%

Moderately adequate >50% -<75%

Inadequate <50%

PART III: It consist of Five point likert scale consists to assess the attitude of the college
students regarding organ donation.

The scale consists of 10 statements to assess the tendency of the participants towards organ
donation. Each statement has five options like Strongly Agree, Agree, Uncertain, Disagree,
Strongly disagree and the scores were distributed as 5,4,3,2,1. The maximum score is 50 and
the minimum score is 1.

For the positive attitude statements the score was measured as follows-

Strongly agree: 5

Agree: 4

Uncertain: 3

Disagree: 2

Strongly disagree: 1

For the negative attitude statements the score was measured as follows-

Strongly agree: 1

Agree: 2

Uncertain: 3

Disagree: 4

Strongly disagree: 5

Scores will be interpreted as follows:

Favourable attitude= 67 - 100%

Moderately favourable attitude= 34 - 66 %

Unfavourable attitude= 0-33 %

PILOT STUDY- Pilot study will be conducted on 10 college students who were excluded
in main study.
ETHICAL CONSIDERATION
 The proposed study will be conducted after the approval of dissertation committee.
 Consent of each subject will be obtained before starting the data collection.
 Confidentiality will be maintained throughout the study.

DATA ANALYSIS

The collected data will be analysed in terms of descriptive and inferential statistics.

DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS:

 Mean, standard Deviation To assess the knowledge and attitude of college

students regarding organ donation.
 Karl Pearson correlation formula, to determine the relationship between
knowledge and attitude regarding organ donation.
INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
 Chi Square test To Find out the association between knowledge and attitude score
regarding organ donation with their demographic variables.