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THE ROMANIAN STUDENT PERCEPTION ABOUT EXPERIMENTATION ON ANIMALS

MIHAELA CLAUDIA SPATARU 1, CRISTIN COMAN 2*, VERONICA BILD 3, GABRIELADUMITRIȚA STANCIU 4, BRUNO STEFAN VELESCU 5, SORIN-IOAN BEȘCHEA CHIRIAC 1, CONSTANTIN SPATARU 1

1“Ion Ionescu de la Brad” University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Iași, Romania
2 “Cantacuzino” National Medico Military Institute for Research and Development, Bucharest
3 Department of Pharmacodynamics and Clinical Pharmacy, “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy,
70 0115 Iași, Romania
4 Advanced Research and Development Center for Experimental Medicine (CEMEX), “Grigore T. Popa” University of
Medicine and Pharmacy, 16 Universității Street, 700115 Iași, Romania
5 “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

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Since the experimentation on animals is a sensitive subject throughout the world, we have been interested in the young people’s perception concerning the use of animals in experimentation, especially considering the fact that such surveys have not been made in Romania so far. The survey was addressed to pupils in the last high school classes, with various educational profiles, and to young students, generally from the biomedical faculties. The purpose of the survey is to find out the projection in future of the general trend on perception, knowledge and attitude regarding experimentation on animals. Thus, we were able to find out what the level of knowledge was and what the sources of information were, when it comes to the use of animals in experimentation, but above all, the current and future perception or attitude concerning animal experimentation. The students in high schools are less interested in the subject and less informed than students from universities, and their general attitude is to disagree with experimentation on animals. On the other hand, we have noticed the increasing in receptivity among young students from universities, where, the acquired information from the curriculum raises the level of knowledge concerning the role of experimentation and more than that, it increases the tolerance regarding the use of animals in experimentation. The results of our survey are generally similar to the others in the European Union countries and show a general tendency to reject the experimentation on animals.