Psychological Aspects of Kidney Transplantation and Organ Donation

Franklin, Patricia M.

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“…The score for depressive symptoms probably reflects the mental state that results from a prolonged experience with chronic condition among patients receiving KT. Patients with ESRD will encounter new challenges after receiving the transplant (Franklin 1994). After the surgery, the new organ will start functioning, but that does not completely eliminate chronic conditions from the patient's life.…”

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Effects of self‐efficacy, self‐care behaviours on depressive symptom of Taiwanese kidney transplant recipients

Weng

Dai

Wang³

et al. 2008

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…After the surgery, the new organ will start functioning, but that does not completely eliminate chronic conditions from the patient's life. Instead, the patient actually begins another life with a different kind of chronic illness (Miller 1991, Franklin 1994, Fallon et al. 1997).…”

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Effects of self‐efficacy, self‐care behaviours on depressive symptom of Taiwanese kidney transplant recipients

Weng

Dai

Wang³

et al. 2008

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…The donor experiences emotional, psychological and spiritual benefits. This consists mainly of an increased self-esteem (Franklin 1994; Gill and Lowes 2008; Brown et al 2008). Also, it has been shown that the donor’s decision-making process was instantaneous and involved little deliberation (Gill and Lowes 2008).…”

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Organ transplantation and meaning of life: the quest for self fulfilment

Quintin

2012

Med Health Care and Philos

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Today, the frequency and the rate of success resulting from advances in medicine have made organ transplantations an everyday occurrence. Still, organ transplantations and donations modify the subjective experience of human beings as regards the image they have of themselves, of body, of life and of death. If the concern of the quality of life and the survival of the patients is a completely human phenomenon, the fact remains that the possibility of organ transplantation and its justification depend a great deal on the culture in which we live. The exploration of the philosophical tradition allows for a reconsideration of organ transplantation. If we listen to people who have experienced the decline of one of their organs and their own rebirth through the organ of someone else, we arrive at the conclusion that they went through an extreme experience in which nothing appeared as before. All those experiences intensify philosophical questionings on the meaning of life with respect to self fulfilment. The concept of nature as the experience of others can be an authentic source from which to nourish our thoughts about organ transplantation. However, and this is our hypothesis, we need something more if we are to decide something about our own life. We need a hermeneutical stance in relation to ourselves and to our world. Philosophical counselling, as a long established tradition originating with Pythagoras and later reframed by the German philosopher Achenbach could be useful in inspiring a reflection on the good life, chiefly as it takes the form of a Socratic dialogue.

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“…These conclusions are drawn from studies that involve retrospective interviews and questionnaires. Such studies are purely voluntary and therefore cannot determine how those who chose not to participate may have been affected, especially if the outcome of the transplant did not meet with their expectations (Kranenburg, et al, 2008;Aulisio, 2008;Franklin, 2008).…”

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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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Psychological Aspects of Kidney Transplantation and Organ Donation

Cited by 6 publications

References 61 publications

Effects of self‐efficacy, self‐care behaviours on depressive symptom of Taiwanese kidney transplant recipients

Effects of self‐efficacy, self‐care behaviours on depressive symptom of Taiwanese kidney transplant recipients

Organ transplantation and meaning of life: the quest for self fulfilment

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

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