title: Live related donors in India: Their quality of life using world health organization quality of life brief questionnaire.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Organ selling is now legally banned in India. Numerous studies have documented that organ vendors have a poor quality of life (QOL) following kidney donation.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study was designed to assess the QOL of living related donors in India.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was a single-center prospective study.
  
  
  METHODS
  The QOL of 106 consecutive related kidney donors was compared before and 6 months after the donation using the World Health Organisation Quality of Life Brief Questionnaire.
  
  
  METHODS
  STATA 9.0 (College Station, Texas) was used and a p value less than 0.05 was considered significant.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The response rate was 94.3% and the mean age was 43.2±11.95 years. Females constituted 73% of the population. Our study showed a significant improvement in the QOL among three of the four domains. The surgical technique (86- mini open donor nephrectomy, and 14 laparoscopic donor nephrectomy), education status, and marital status did not make any difference in the change in the QOL.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Despite a number of our donors being unemployed and not being well educated, live related kidney donation improves the QOL of donors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Disciplines, Teaching block, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Sunil K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Vemuru Reddy
authors.forename: Sandeep
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guleria
authors.forename: Okidi
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Okechukwu
authors.forename: Rajesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sagar
authors.forename: Dipankar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bhowmik
authors.forename: Sandeep
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mahajan