Quality of Life and Life Events of Living Unrelated Kidney Donors in Iran: A Multicenter Study

Recipient Graft Failure or Death Impact on Living Kidney Donor Quality of Life Based on the Living Organ Donor Network Database

“…12,[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] The studies published to date suffer from design limitations and are either retrospective, [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][30][31][32][33][34][35] from a single center, 12,[14][15][16][17][18][24][25][26][28][29][30] or involve fewer than 150 donors. 12,[14][15][16][21][22][23][24][25]…”

Cash, rewards, and benefits in organ transplantation: an open letter to Senator Arlen Specter

“…It is unclear to me how legislation could be designed to ensure that those who donate in this country would not be vulnerable to coercion, even if direct cash payments were proscribed. I should add that in Iran almost all donors are poor and uneducated and there have been repeated reports of the poor psychosocial outcomes of their donors [7,8 ]. With respect to deceased donation, studies of families that have declined to consent to donation have shown that financial incentives would have had limited, if any, influence on their decision: some studies have shown a 'backlash' effect [9].…”

Reliability and Validity of the World Health Organization Quality of Life: Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF) in a Homeless Substance Dependent Veteran Population

“…Taking one item of each of the 24 facets and two global items, the WHOQOL-BREF has demonstrated agreement with the full scale (Bonomi and Patrick 1997). The WHOQOL-BREF is used in numerous populations including geriatric (Chachamovich et al 2008), transplants (Nejatisafa et al 2008), anxiety and depression (Masskulpan et al 2008), cognitive impairment (Kim et al 2008), heart failure (Zhao et al 2008) and multiple sclerosis (Wynia et al 2008). Correlations with the WHOQOL-100 have generally been near .9 (WHOQOL Group 1998).…”