Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors influencing cognition of University students on brain death and organ transplantation. Questionnaire surveys were conducted among University students in 1992 and 1997. The students who accept brain death as the death of human being tended to agree with promotion of organ transplantation, provide their own organs in brain death and accept their family's brain death. More female students agreed with organ transplantation and allowed to provide their orgain in brain death than male students, but female students who did not accept brain death tended to refuse providing their organs. The proportion of students who agree with promotion of organ transplantation increased from 1992 to 1997. Male students who provide their own organ in brain death increased, but such female students decreased during the period. The same tendency was found for cognition on brain death of a family.
