Iranian Living Related Donors: Motivation for Kidney Donation

Farahani, Ziba Borzabadi; Esmaeili, Maryam

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“…The desire to improve their health and prevent them from entering dialysis were key to their decision-making. Concern for the recipient health and the wish to improve his/her quality of life as well as avoid complications or even death were reported in previous studies [37,[48][49][50][51]. Participants decisions in our study were made with ease and conviction, in line with previous studies [48,49].…”

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An intersectional gender analysis in kidney transplantation: women who donate a kidney

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Background Living-donor transplantation is the best treatment option in patients with chronic kidney failure. Global data show that women are less likely to be kidney recipients than men but are more likely to become living kidney donors. We explored the experience of women who donate a kidney to relatives with biological and socio-cultural ties and to understand the similarities and differences in their experience. Methods A qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study with an intersectional analysis of gender. Ten women donors accepted in the transplant evaluation period participated, all of whom donated a kidney to a pre-dialysis relative. Two categories were included: women with biological kinship ties (mothers, sisters) and women who have a socio-cultural relationship (wives) with kidney recipient. The data were collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews and analysed using thematic analysis. Results Women donate their kidneys in a convinced manner, without worrying about their health, with an optimistic and positive attitude, and without believing that they are acting heroically. Women with biological kinship ties see it as a ‘naturalization thing’. In contrast, wives donate conditioned by gender roles, but also as a form of empowerment and as a personal benefit: they donate in order to avoid taking on carer role for their husband and as a way of protecting their children. Conclusion The study’s findings expand the conception of kidney donation as solely altruistic and may help professionals to pay attention to the complexity and intersectionality of features present in women who are living kidney donors.

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An intersectional gender analysis in kidney transplantation: women who donate a kidney

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“…However, our study showed, that living kidney donation was supported by people for whom the most important symbol of happiness was a ''life full of adventures, travels" and ''sense of humor and witticism" (in the case of the willingness to give the kidney to a stranger), and the most important value was ''goodness and tenderness". Most studies on donor motivation show that the reason why they decide to donate, is to extend the life of recipients and improve their quality of life [38][39][40][41][42]. For people surveyed in Israel by Kurleto et al [34], the motive for donating a kidney to a stranger was a strong willingness to help, and the will to do good.…”

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Factors Associated with the Willingness to Become a Living Kidney Donor: A National Cross-Sectional Study

Kurleto

Tomaszek

Milaniak

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Introduction: Living donor kidney transplantation is the preferred method of treating kidney failure. The donor agrees to undergo an elective procedure for the benefit of the recipient. Aim: To assess the attitude toward living kidney donation and to investigate the factors that contribute to kidney donation willingness. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out between December 2020 and February 2021. The study covered a representative group of 953 Poles aged 18−77, living in all Polish voivodships. The relationship between sociodemographic factors, personal values (Personal Values List), the total score of life satisfaction (Satisfaction with Life Scale) and the willingness to donate a kidney to another human was assessed using a logistic regression model. Results: The most frequently chosen personal values were: good health; physical and mental fitness; love and friendship; knowledge and wisdom. The most frequently chosen symbols of happiness were: good health, successful family life, being needed by others. The median satisfaction with life for the entire group was 20 [16; 24]. Voluntary donation of a kidney to another human being i.e. family, friends, strangers were more often declared by women (OR = 1.21; Cl95%: 1.03−1.42), for whom the most important symbol of happiness was a life full of adventures, travels (OR = 1.39; Cl95%: 1.06−1.82) and the most important personal value was goodness and tenderness (OR = 1.21; Cl95%: 1.05−1.40). Total scores of The Satisfaction with Life Scale correlated positively with the willingness to voluntarily donate a kidney (OR = 1.03; Cl95%: 1.003−1.06), while age correlated negatively (OR = 0.99; Cl95%: 0.98−0.99). Conclusions: Respondents who declare their willingness to be a living kidney donor are mainly female, for which the most important symbol of happiness is a life full of adventures and travel, and the most important values are personal goodness and tenderness. The desire to donate a kidney to another person decreases with age and grows with life satisfaction. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov (ID: NCT04789122).

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“…It is common in ethnographic studies for there to be just one interviewer and no recording of the interview other than the researcher's personal notes. This is the case for all ethnographic studies involving Iranian living organ donors of which we are aware (Broumand et al, ; Farahani and Esmaeili, ; Tober, ; Tong et al, ; Zargooshi, , ).…”

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“…It is also data collected after the new national regulations governing compensated organ donation were fully implemented and includes donor interviews done in six transplant regions instead of just at one hospital in Shiraz. Iranians have written papers based on interviews with living organ donors, but none focused on the question of exploitation other than Zargooshi, and his data were collected even before Tober's (1989–2000) (Broumand, Parsapoor, & Asghari, ; Farahani & Esmaeili, ; Zargooshi, , ). Furthermore, none of the raw data (recordings or field notes) are publically available for any of these authors.…”

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Introducing an Exploitation/Fair Dealings Scale for Evaluating Living Organ Donor Policies Using Iran as the Test Case

Fry‐Revere¹,

Chen²,

Bastani³

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World Med & Health Policy

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This article presents a tool for evaluating whether living organ donor systems are exploitive or fair to donors. The exploitation/fair dealing scale introduced in this article relies on broadly accepted notions of exploitation and fair dealing from U.S. bioethics literature and U.S. jurisprudence. The 10‐factor/14‐point scale derived from those concepts is then applied to Iran as an illustrative example. It is our hope that the scale will be useful for evaluating living organ donor policies around the world.

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Iranian Living Related Donors: Motivation for Kidney Donation

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An intersectional gender analysis in kidney transplantation: women who donate a kidney

An intersectional gender analysis in kidney transplantation: women who donate a kidney

Factors Associated with the Willingness to Become a Living Kidney Donor: A National Cross-Sectional Study

Introducing an Exploitation/Fair Dealings Scale for Evaluating Living Organ Donor Policies Using Iran as the Test Case

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