title: Toward a Conceptualization of the Content of Psychosocial Screening in Living Organ Donors: An Ethical Legal Psychological Aspects of Transplantation Consensus.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Across Europe, transplant centers vary in the content of the psychosocial evaluation for eligible living organ donors. To identify whether a common framework underlies this variation in this evaluation, we studied which psychosocial screening items are most commonly used and considered as most important in current psychosocial screening programs of living organ donors.
  
  
  METHODS
  A multivariate analytic method, concept mapping, was used to generate a visual representation of the "psychosocial" screening items of living kidney and liver donors. A list of 75 potential screening items was derived from a systematic literature review and sorted and rated for their importance and commonness by multidisciplinary affiliated health care professionals from across Europe. Results were discussed and fine-tuned during a consensus meeting.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The analyses resulted in a 6-cluster solution. The following clusters on psychosocial screening items were identified, listed from most to least important: (1) personal resources, (2) motivation and decision making, (3) psychopathology, (4) social resources, (5) ethical and legal factors, and (6) information and risk processing.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We provided a conceptual framework of the essential elements in psychosocial evaluation of living donors which can serve as a uniform basis for the selection of relevant psychosocial evaluation tools, which can be further tested in prospective studies.
authors.forename: Sohal Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Ismail
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Duerinckx
authors.forename: Marieke M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: van der Knoop
authors.forename: Lotte
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Timmerman
authors.forename: Willem
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Weimar
authors.forename: Fabienne
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dobbels
authors.forename: Emma K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Massey
authors.forename: Jan J J V
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Busschbach
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002755:Choice Behavior; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D032921:Consensus; D046148:Donor Selection / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016377:Organ Transplantation / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires