Psicodebate (Sep 2015)
Organs donation: a psychological view
Abstract
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.
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