Catalonian Religious Leader Views on Organ Donation

Catalonia's Barcelona Reflection Project surveyed religious and cultural leaders on organ donation attitudes from 2018. Jorge Twose led this multidisciplinary project involving 70 religious leaders, 11 transplant coordinators, and 5 experts across seven workshops. The project aimed to understand religious perspectives to reduce donation refusal rates.

Use Cases

• Analyze workshop discussions on Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, and other faiths to map religious attitudes toward donation procedures.
• Use participant counts (70 leaders, 11 coordinators) to assess the project's community reach and engagement depth.
• Reference the reported 81.8% consent rate in Catalonia over 10 years as a baseline for evaluating intervention impact.
• Study the project's findings on funeral aspects and family acceptance to design targeted informational materials.

Strengths

• Direct engagement with 86 total participants including religious leaders and healthcare professionals.
• Multidisciplinary approach covering five distinct faith groups through structured workshops.
• Includes a concrete regional performance metric: 81.8% donation consent rate in Catalonia over 10 years.

Limitations

• Dataset is a single 489.6 KB PDF report, not a structured data table for quantitative analysis.
• Geographic scope is limited to Catalonia, Spain, with no comparative data from other regions.
• No raw survey data or individual participant responses are provided, only summarized findings.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Jorge Twose.

Collection Method

Project comprised seven activities: two open conferences and five closed seminars with religious leaders.

Time Range

Project began in 2018; report includes 10-year consent rate data.

Freshness

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Geography

Catalonia, Spain, specifically Barcelona.