title: Factors influencing low incidence of living donors for renal transplantation in Poland.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To answer the question: "Why are only 3.8% of kidney transplantations in Poland from living donors?"
  
  
  METHODS
  The research was conducted using data from anonymous polls addressed to family members of dialyzed patients (potential donors).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Almost everybody (98%) had heard about the possibility of treating renal insufficiency by kidney transplantation, but only 77% knew about the possibility of giving their own kidney to a related person. Merely 36% had been informed about this treatment method by a doctor. The most common fears within respondents were those of: health worsening after donating a kidney--45%, and the operation itself (taking an organ)--39%.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of General and Transplantation Surgery, Pomeranian Academy of Medicine, Szczecin, Poland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sieńko
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ostrowski
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ciechanowski
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kamiński
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sulikowski
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pabisiak
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paczkowski
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Domański
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fronczyk
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Slozowski
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tejchman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009392:Nephrectomy / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000523:psychology; D011044:Poland