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Twenty Years of Unspecified Kidney Donation: Unspecified Donors Looking Back on Their Donation Experiences
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-structure...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10011065/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36925946 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ti.2023.10959 |
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author | Pronk, Mathilde C. Zuidema, Willij C. Weimar, Willem Van De Wetering, Jacqueline Ismail, Sohal Y. Massey, Emma K. |
author_facet | Pronk, Mathilde C. Zuidema, Willij C. Weimar, Willem Van De Wetering, Jacqueline Ismail, Sohal Y. Massey, Emma K. |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-100110652023-03-15 Twenty Years of Unspecified Kidney Donation: Unspecified Donors Looking Back on Their Donation Experiences Pronk, Mathilde C. Zuidema, Willij C. Weimar, Willem Van De Wetering, Jacqueline Ismail, Sohal Y. Massey, Emma K. Transpl Int Health Archive 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10011065/ /pubmed/36925946 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ti.2023.10959 Text en Copyright © 2023 Pronk, Zuidema, Weimar, Van De Wetering, Ismail and Massey. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Health Archive Pronk, Mathilde C. Zuidema, Willij C. Weimar, Willem Van De Wetering, Jacqueline Ismail, Sohal Y. Massey, Emma K. Twenty Years of Unspecified Kidney Donation: Unspecified Donors Looking Back on Their Donation Experiences |
title | Twenty Years of Unspecified Kidney Donation: Unspecified Donors Looking Back on Their Donation Experiences |
title_full | Twenty Years of Unspecified Kidney Donation: Unspecified Donors Looking Back on Their Donation Experiences |
title_fullStr | Twenty Years of Unspecified Kidney Donation: Unspecified Donors Looking Back on Their Donation Experiences |
title_full_unstemmed | Twenty Years of Unspecified Kidney Donation: Unspecified Donors Looking Back on Their Donation Experiences |
title_short | Twenty Years of Unspecified Kidney Donation: Unspecified Donors Looking Back on Their Donation Experiences |
title_sort | twenty years of unspecified kidney donation: unspecified donors looking back on their donation experiences |
topic | Health Archive |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10011065/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36925946 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/ti.2023.10959 |
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