An investigation of post-traumatic growth experiences among living kidney donors

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dc.contributor.authorYücetin, Levent
dc.contributor.authorBozoklar, C. A.
dc.contributor.authorYanık, O.
dc.contributor.authorTekin, S.
dc.contributor.authorTuncer, Murat
dc.contributor.authorDemirbaş, A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-15T12:37:47Z
dc.date.available2021-05-15T12:37:47Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.departmentTıp Fakültesi, İç Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalıen_US
dc.description.abstractMore than 1 million patients are estimated to have undergone transplantation in the past years. In recent years, living-donor kidney transplantation accounted for more than 50% of all transplantations. Kidney transplantation from living donors is regarded as a contradictory case to the "do no harm" principle as a major surgical intervention is performed on a normal and healthy person at the expense of recovery of the organ recipient. The purpose of this study was to investigate positive psychological experiences, specifically post-traumatic growth (PTG), among living kidney donors. The sample consisted of a total of 184 kidney donors. The age of donors ranged between 21-76 (mean, 50.76; SD, 10.93). In this study 67.9% of donors were female. The recipients on dialysis group had higher scores than the recipients who did not have dialysis; the mean difference was significant on the subscales of change in life philosophy, change in relationships, change in self-perception, and in the PTGI score. The donors with higher education levels received higher scores on the subscale of change in relationships in comparison with donors with low education. The donors who were married and older than 51 years had higher scores than donors who were not married or younger on the subscale of change in self-perception. This is a single-center study; this center performs more than 500 kidney transplantations per year. There is a good system and experience at each step before and after transplantation for donor and recipient and relatives. It is a really big potential trauma to donate a kidney to your relative; you can change this negative effect to a positive effect with a good system. The present study also showed that when compared with the scale's absolute midpoint, kidney donors in the study sample experienced moderate-to-high levels of PTG.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.transproceed.2015.04.027
dc.identifier.endpage1290en_US
dc.identifier.issn0041-1345
dc.identifier.issn1873-2623
dc.identifier.issue5en_US
dc.identifier.pmid26093699
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84931463207
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ3
dc.identifier.startpage1287en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2015.04.027
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12939/585
dc.identifier.volume47en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000357066800010
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMed
dc.institutionauthorTuncer, Murat
dc.institutionauthorTekin, S.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier Science Incen_US
dc.relation.ispartofTransplantation Proceedings
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectLiving Kidney Donorsen_US
dc.subjectPTGIen_US
dc.titleAn investigation of post-traumatic growth experiences among living kidney donors
dc.typeArticle

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