Özet:

Although the number of individuals who donate their organs has increased in recent years, the excess of the number of individuals waiting for organ transplant clearly shows the importance of the issue of organ donation and organ transplant. The study is aimed at studying the levels of knowledge and opinions of students of 7th and 8th classes on organ donation and organ transplant. The universe of study 2017-2018 educational academic year in the first semester of Aydin or Kuyucak district's state secondary schools studying 7. and 8. The class forms students. The method of sampling was not used because the whole universe was reached in the study. So the universe of research represents the example. The examples of the study are made by 513 (264 girls, 249 men) high school 7th and 8th classes students who studied in the state high schools in the first half of the 2017-2018 educational year of Aydın ili Kuyucak district. Data in the research, Stream vd. Organ donation, which consists of 12 questions developed by (2008) has been obtained by information level and opinions survey. The analysis of the data is carried out visually. Analysis tables are created by calculating the frequencies and percentages related to the data. The study found that there were differences between organs donation and transplant knowledge levels between 7th and 8th grade students, but there was no big difference between their opinions.