By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Blood Weekly -- A new study on Kidney Diseases and Conditions - Kidney Disease is now available. According to news reporting originating in Rotterdam, Netherlands, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “The increase in patients using public solicitation (PS) to find a living kidney donor has generated a debate about the ethical complexities of PS. To investigate why patients engaged in PS and what they experienced during PS, we conducted semistructured interviews with 20 Dutch patients with end-stage renal disease who had publicly solicited a living donor.”
Financial support for this research came from Nierstichting.
The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Erasmus University Medical Center, “Transcripts were thematically analyzed. We identified ten themes on patients’ considerations preceding PS: cautiousness in discussing living donation within social network; reluctance to accept a kidney from loved ones; rejection/withdrawal of related donor candidates; moral objections to paid donation; the ease of social media; encouraged by others; ends justifying the means; despair and urge to take action; public disclosure of vulnerability; fear of being (perceived to be) selfish. We identified nine themes on patients’ experiences: positive emotions and support generated by action; genuine and ulterior motives for donation; patients acting as educators and screeners; time-and energy-consuming process; emotionally taxing process; positive interactions with donor candidates; feeling of dependency and obligation; limited cooperation from health professionals; demands a proactive attitude and media strategy.”
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “These results can inform and complement (existing) policies on PS and provide content for education of patients who are considering PS.”
For more information on this research see: “What if this is my chance to save my life?” A semistructured interview study on the motives and experiences of end-stage renal disease patients who engaged in public solicitation of a living kidney donor. Transplant International , 2017;():. Transplant International can be contacted at: Blackwell Publishing Inc, 350 Main St, Malden, MA 02148, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Transplant International - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1432-2277)
Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting M.C. Pronk, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Additional authors for this research include D. Slaats, W.C. Zuidema, M.T. Hilhorst, F.JMF. Dor, M. Betjes, W. Weimar, J. van de Wetering and E.K Massey.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/tri.13095. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
The publisher of the journal Transplant International can be contacted at: Blackwell Publishing Inc, 350 Main St, Malden, MA 02148, USA.
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CITATION: (2018-01-04), Studies from Erasmus University Medical Center Have Provided New Information about Kidney Disease (“What if this is my chance to save my life?” A semistructured interview study on the motives and experiences of end-stage renal disease patients ...), Blood Weekly, 71, ISSN: 1532-4559, BUTTER® ID: 014910447
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