Gift exchange and organ donation: Donor and recipient experiences of live related kidney transplantation

Gill, Paul; Lowes, Lesley Madeline

doi:10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2008.03.004

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“…To our knowledge, little is known about HSCT pa-tients' experiences of having a sibling as donor. However, studies of patients with a living, related kidney donor, who are in a comparable situation, describe feelings of gratitude, guilt, willingness to repay the donor, responsibility, being indebted to and worried about the donor (Gill & Lowes, 2008;Sajjad et al, 2007;Sanner, 2003); similar to the findings revealed in Study III.…”

Section: Perspectives Of Patients Undergoing Hsctsupporting

confidence: 68%

“…We do not know much about patients' experiences of having a sibling as donor. However, studies of patients with a living, related kidney donor, who are in a comparable situation to recipients of stem cells from sibling donors, describe feelings of responsibility, and of being indebted to and worried about the donor (Gill & Lowes, 2008;Sajjad et al, 2007;Sanner, 2003;). However, as Sajjad et al (2007) point out, the majority of the studies concerned the situation of the kidney donors, and more studies are needed focusing on the recipients.…”

Section: Quality Of Life In Hsct Patientsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Having a sibling as donor: Patients' experiences immediately before allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Kisch

Bolmsjö

Lenhoff

et al. 2014

European Journal of Oncology Nursing

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Section: Perspectives Of Patients Undergoing Hsctsupporting

confidence: 68%

Section: Quality Of Life In Hsct Patientsmentioning

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Having a sibling as donor: Patients' experiences immediately before allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Kisch

Bolmsjö

Lenhoff

et al. 2014

European Journal of Oncology Nursing

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“…This is in contrast to PA111 who waiting patiently until the end of the monologue or until she was asked a specific question at which time she usually responded with full sentences. Donor benefit as defined by living kidney donors themselves was clear within the transcripts but was dissimilar in many instances to the physical and psychological benefit and risk that have long been considered by clinicians when determining the suitability of the living kidney donor (Spital, A, 2004;Ilic & Avramovic, 2002 ;Zeller, 2009 ;Gill & Lowes, 2008;Lennerling, et al, 2003). These authors are each in agreement that the choice to donate an organ has the ability to create positive long-term psychological implications for the person donating.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Gill and Lowes (2008), living kidney donation is not always about gift-giving and certainly living kidney donor comments that attempt to place tangible value on the kidney donation gift, though seemingly considered meaningless within the context of single discussion, have the ability to apply not so subtle pressure and change the dynamics within the living kidney donor-recipient relationship. "If you don't behave, you won't get a kidney…" (PA 102).…”

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The living donor study: the concepts and frames of living kidney donors

Cunningham¹,

Leach²,

Fawcett³

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This thesis explores the concepts and frames of living kidney donors through the use of recorded and transcribed conversations between living kidney donor patients and their transplant team. It offers insight into the expectations of living kidney donors as they prepare themselves to gift a kidney to someone they know.Living kidney donor frames are represented as particularly resilient and well-defined, shielding them from messages delivered by their transplant team. Those frames incorporate their acceptance as living kidney donors, the risk to themselves and their own personal definitions of autonomy and choice.With the intention of using phenomenological discourse analysis to examine the recorded and transcribed data, ten potential living kidney donors and their recipients were invited to take part in a PhD project entitled the Living Donor Study at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, in Queensland Australia. Transcriptions were analysed using line-by-line and axial coding and living donor transcripts were repeatedly compared with one another in order to reach an appropriate level of saturation and provide evidence of re-emerging concepts and frames.Data for the Living Donor Study were obtained during the living kidney donor's initial transplant assessment clinic visit. The purpose of this project was to examine prospective accounts of the living donation experience using conversations with their transplant team as opposed to using retrospective questionnaires and interviewing methods. By eliminating much of the subjectivity that is common in ex post facto interviews, I was able to identify many of the concepts that assist living kidney donors in framing their experience and how those frames impact upon their expectations of the transplant assessment clinic and their upcoming donation.

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“…Recipients of blood might be expected to feel gratitude but unlike the gratitude felt and expressed by patients for the personal care they receive from staff caring for them (Mullin 2011), or the gratitude felt towards known donors (Gill and Lowes 2008) this cannot be expressed to the individual. 18 However, gratitude can be felt and expressed by recipients to the pool of donors, and this forms part of the regimen of gratitude fostered by blood donation organisations.…”

Section: The 'Official Position' -Supererogation Inferredmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenging the Moral Status of Blood Donation

Snelling

2012

Health Care Anal

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The World Health Organisation encourages that blood donation becomes voluntary and unremunerated, a system already operated in the UK. Drawing on public documents and videos, this paper argues that blood donation is regarded and presented as altruistic and supererogatory. In advertisements, donation is presented as something undertaken for the benefit of others, a matter attracting considerable gratitude from recipients and the collecting organisation. It is argued that regarding blood donation as an act of supererogation is wrongheaded, and an alternative account of blood donation as moral obligation is presented. Two arguments are offered in support of this position. First, the principle of beneficence, understood in a broad consequentialist framework obliges donation where the benefit to the recipient is large and the cost to the donor relatively small. This argument can be applied, with differing levels of normativity, to various acts of donation. Second, the wrongness of free riding requires individuals to contribute to collective systems from which they benefit. Alone and in combination these arguments present moral reasons for donation, recognised in communication strategies elsewhere. Research is required to evaluate the potential effects on donation of a campaign which presents blood donation as moral obligation, but of wider importance is the recognition that other-regarding considerations in relation to our own as well as others' health result in a range not only of choices but also of obligations.

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Gift exchange and organ donation: Donor and recipient experiences of live related kidney transplantation

Cited by 82 publications

References 30 publications

Having a sibling as donor: Patients' experiences immediately before allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Having a sibling as donor: Patients' experiences immediately before allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

The living donor study: the concepts and frames of living kidney donors

Challenging the Moral Status of Blood Donation

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