A living donor is by definition a healthy person without significant medical problems.However,procedures involved with donation expose living donors to risks from a number of complications and donor safety remains an ...A living donor is by definition a healthy person without significant medical problems.However,procedures involved with donation expose living donors to risks from a number of complications and donor safety remains an issue of concern.[1]Complications can affect the donor’s quality of life(QoL)to varying degrees and scales or questionnaires are commonly used to assess their QoL.Based on existing literature,we found three types of instruments for assessing living donors’QoL:(1)generic instruments,(2)disease-specific instruments,and(3)selfdeveloped instruments(scales,questionnaires,survey lists).Generic instruments(eg,36-item short form health survey),[2]may not adequately measure some specific problems and/or minor issues associated with the organ transplant surgery.Disease-specific instruments,(eg,chronic liver disease questionnaire),originally developed for use with particular diseases,[3]may lack precision and comprehensiveness in assessing the QoL of donors from healthy individuals.Self-developed instruments can resolve some of the deficiencies associated with generic and disease-specific instruments.[4,5]In China,there remains a lack of consensus with regard to an effective scale that is specific for assessing the QoL of living organ donors.展开更多
基金This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.71603272 and No.71974008)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2018M641114).
文摘A living donor is by definition a healthy person without significant medical problems.However,procedures involved with donation expose living donors to risks from a number of complications and donor safety remains an issue of concern.[1]Complications can affect the donor’s quality of life(QoL)to varying degrees and scales or questionnaires are commonly used to assess their QoL.Based on existing literature,we found three types of instruments for assessing living donors’QoL:(1)generic instruments,(2)disease-specific instruments,and(3)selfdeveloped instruments(scales,questionnaires,survey lists).Generic instruments(eg,36-item short form health survey),[2]may not adequately measure some specific problems and/or minor issues associated with the organ transplant surgery.Disease-specific instruments,(eg,chronic liver disease questionnaire),originally developed for use with particular diseases,[3]may lack precision and comprehensiveness in assessing the QoL of donors from healthy individuals.Self-developed instruments can resolve some of the deficiencies associated with generic and disease-specific instruments.[4,5]In China,there remains a lack of consensus with regard to an effective scale that is specific for assessing the QoL of living organ donors.
