Organ Donation Decision in Families With Brain-Dead Patients

Abstract

rgan transplantation is an effective procedure in saving the lives of patients with end-stage organ failure (López et al., 2018), which can lead to improving the recipients' quality of life (de Moraes et al., 2018); however, it remains limited because of the gap between organ access and the number of patients requiring it (López et al., 2018).The growing need for donor organs has become a major health concern in the world (Ahmadian et al., 2019). In April 2018, more than 114,000 people were on the waiting list for organ transplant in the United States whereas only 34,770 transplants were performed in 2017 (i.e., about 30% received the transplant). Moreover, according to this report, 20 patients waiting for transplant die daily (Division of Transplantation, Human Resources & Services Administration, 2018).Today, organ donation (OD) from the deceased donors is the most important source of human organs (López et al., 2018;Mojtabaee et al., 2018) and benefit from organs of the brain-dead person is Author Contributions: Both authors have been personally and actively involved in substantial work leading to the paper. Data collection was done by both, and they agreed on data categorization and labeling.

A mixed-methods study of emotional support for families of organ donors in Hunan Province, China

“…Family members play a prominent role in the eventual organ donation decision. At present, there are many studies on family consent and the influencing factors in the decisionmaking process (Lopez et al, 2018;Pan et al, 2021;Rafii and Rahimi, 2022). And there are some literature about organ donor families' psychological experiences during the making decision Bjelland and Jones, 2022).…”