Psicodebate (Sep 2015)

Organs donation: a psychological view

  • Silvia Natenson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18682/pd.v6i0.446
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 0
pp. 139 – 148

Abstract

Read online

To assess and evaluate psychological characteristics to be found among people able and willing to perform and organ donation inter vivos, the author has designed and administered a questionnaire to a retrospective sample of living kidney donors. Values obtained ranged as follows: Filial love, 91%. Love for oneself, 66,7%. Parents ́command 66,7%. Need for “starring”, 41%. Giving a second life 50%. Ideals 50%. Moral obligation 50%. Altruism 50%. Family acceptation 30%. Dependence and control 25%. Exercising one ́s own freedom 25%. Guilt 16%. Interest for money 0%. A psychological approach to donors is indispensable before a kidney transplantation surgery is performed.

Keywords