title: Psychological and social problems encountered in active treatment of chronic uraemia. III. Prediction of the living donor's psychological reaction.
abstract: Sixteen kidney donors were interviewed by a psychiatrist and given the Rorschach test before and one year after operation. We used our previous study as a basis in predicting the expectable level of psychic traumatization that the donation process would provoke. In 10 of the donors the prediction proved to be correct. A trend towards a better predictability was observed in cases of successful transplantation. An unsuccessful operation is always followed by psychological complications, reducing the possibilities of an accurate prediction and necessitating psychotherapeutic help. The present procedures are clinically simple and require relatively little time.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D012392:Rorschach Test; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000523:psychology*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous