title: Liver Transplantation: Recipients' Evaluation of Life From the Perspective of Living Donors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Liver transplantation affects not only recipients and living donors' lives, but also the nature and quality of their relationship. Moreover, the ways in which recipients of liver transplant experience life and views of living donors on how recipients experience life may differ. These differences may account for relational changes. It is also important to understand how recipients and their living donors' views differ if the aim is to devise psychoeducational programs for recipients and living donors. Therefore, the present study examined the recipients' experience of life after a diagnosis of end-stage liver failure (ESLF) and transplantation surgery from donors' perspective.
  
  
  METHODS
  The sample consisted of 16 living donors who donated a part of their liver to a patient with ESLF. Thematic analysis was undertaken in parallel with interviews during which an interview guide was followed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Donors felt that recipients evaluated life after the diagnosis of ESLF and transplantation surgery in terms of limitations, mixed relationships, emotional changes, and improvement in life.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Experience of social limitations, negative emotions, and the feeling that one is supported by others could be interpreted in terms of existing psychological theory. Some ways of adjusting that have not been reported before within the context of ESLF extended the literature. These included others being frightened of being infected by ESLF and being insensitive, experience of positive emotions, and ways of improving. Overall, compared with findings of previous qualitative work among recipients, our findings suggest that donors' evaluation of recipients' lives converge with that of recipients.
authors.affiliation: Counselling Service, Doga College, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tankurt
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: margorit.boothby@khas.edu.tr.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Krespi Boothby
authors.affiliation: Centre of Organ Transplantation, Memorial Sisli Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Acarlı
authors.affiliation: Centre of Organ Transplantation, Memorial Sisli Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kalayoğlu
authors.affiliation: Centre of Organ Transplantation, Memorial Sisli Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanmaz
authors.affiliation: Centre of Organ Transplantation, Memorial Sisli Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yankol
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D058625:End Stage Liver Disease / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult