ArticleTransplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation2023
Twenty Years of Unspecified Kidney Donation: Unspecified Donors Looking Back on Their Donation Experiences.
Article in Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Psychological Impact of Living Kidney Donation: A Systematic Review by the EAU-YAU Kidney Transplant Working Group.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2023Pooled it
- The Changing Paradigm of Good Samaritan Kidney Donation in the United States.Transplantation direct · 2026Article
- Spousal Kidney Donations in Israel: Religious and Psychoanalytic Perspectives.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Landscape of current practices and future perspectives in living donor kidney donation in Europe: proceedings of a pan-European symposium by the European kidney transplant association section of the European Society for Organ Transplantation.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026Article
- Willingness to Become a Living Kidney Donor to a Stranger Among Polish Health Care Professionals Employed in a Dialysis Center: A National Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Designing qualitative research with value in the clinical and epidemiological context: what, why and how.Clinical kidney journal · 2025Article
- Living Kidney Donation: A Narrative Review of Mid- and Long-term Psychosocial Outcomes.Transplantation · 2025Review
- Post-Donation Evaluation: Emotional Needs for Social Connection and Social Support among Living Kidney Donors-A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Exploring Staff Attitudes Towards Unspecified Kidney Donors in the United Kingdom: Results From the BOUnD Study.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2023Article
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Abstract
The Netherlands was the first European country to implement unspecified kidney donation in 2000. This qualitative study aimed to evaluate the experiences of unspecified kidney donors (UKDs) in our transplant institute to improve the care for this valuable group of donors. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 106 UKDs who donated between 2000-2016 (response rate 84%). Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim and independently coded by 2 researchers in NVivo using thematic analysis. The following 14 themes reflecting donor experiences were found: Satisfaction with donation; Support from social network; Interpersonal stress; Complaints about hospital care; Uncertainty about donor approval; Life on hold between approval and actual donation; Donation requires perseverance and commitment; Recovery took longer than expected; Normalization of the donation; Becoming an advocate for living kidney donation; Satisfaction with anonymity; Ongoing curiosity about outcome or recipient; Importance of anonymous communication; Anonymity is not watertight. The data reinforced that unspecified kidney donation is a positive experience for donors and that they were generally satisfied with the procedures. Most important complaints about the procedure concerned the length of the assessment procedure and the lack of acknowledgment for UKDs from both their recipients and health professionals. Suggestions are made to address the needs of UKDs.
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