Related donors: costs and gains.
A quantitative, sociopsychologic study of 111 donors at 1 year after a successful transplant points to long-term emotional benefits rather than costs for most donors. While no one factor is highly predictive of donors who react less well, exclusion of extremely ambivalent donors would appear advisable, as would counseling help for other relatives who wish to donate despite normal fears.
D001294:Attitude to Health; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D011584:Psychology; D014019:Tissue Donors; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous