Becoming a living kidney donor.
Earlier investigations of attitudes of living kidney donors have been performed in retrospect. We saw a need to investigate in depth those motives and feelings that are relevant in potential kidney donors. With a phenomenologic approach, interviews were performed with 12 potential donors. Seven categories of motives were identified: a desire to help, increased self-esteem from doing good deeds, identification with the recipient, self-benefit from the relative's improved health, mere logic, external pressure, and a feeling of moral duty. In the individual, these categories interacted to create a perception of donation being the only option.
Department of Transplantation and Liver Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden. annette.lennerling@vgregion.se.
Annette
A
Lennerling
Anna
A
Forsberg
Gudrun
G
Nyberg
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000523:psychology*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000523:psychology*; D008128:Logic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D012649:Self Concept; D012931:Social Environment; D012941:Social Responsibility