Resilience as a moderator of extreme stress adaptation – living kidney donor analysis

The aim of the study was to check if a situation of extreme and traumatizing stress, such as living kidney donation, will result in changes in the quality of the donor ’s life: whether a posttraumatic growth should occur, and if the donor develops a strategy to handle strong and uncommon stress, known as resilience.The study was conducted on 23 living kidney donors aged 25 to 63, who were examined 3 days before the donation and 6 months after. The study was cond ucted using the following tools: self-prepared questionnaires for donors before and after donations and validated questionnaires PTGI-R, PRE and SPP25.

Source: Transplantation Proceedings - April 27, 2018 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Aleksandra Tomaszek, El żbieta Zdankiewicz-Ścigała, Dariusz Kosson, Maciej Kosieradzki Source Type: research