Relationships and Predictor of Decision Making, Family Relationship and Quality of Life in Living Organ Donor---A Logitudinal Syudy

The decision-making and quality of life was very important issues of living organ donor. However, there were several obstacles in the current studies as lack use the validity and reliability confirmed tools, cross-sectional design and the follow-up time was not enough etc. The purpose of this study is to investigate the sense of coherence, social support, family relationships, and quality of life of living organ donation candidates; to compare the difference of study variables in different type of organ candidates and between the donated (actual) donor and un-donated organ candidates. In addition, it was aims to explore the long-term changes of study variables. This is a three years study proposal. It will perform during the period from 102 to 105 years. The study is a medical center at the northern Taiwan. The purposive sampling method is used to recruit study sample. The inclusion criteria are as follow: age 20 years and above, undergo physical and psychological evaluation for living organ donation, were donated their part of organ to their adult relatives. It will expect to recruit 168 cases. The self-administrated questionnaires including donation decision-making related scale, family environment scale and quality of life scale (MOS SF-36) are used to collect data. The data collection will take once in the potential donor. The potential donors who become actual donor will invite to participate in longitudinal follow-up (prior discharge from hospital, 1month, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months post-donation). The mean, standard deviation and percentage will use to describe the distribution of study variables. Pearson correlation and independent t test will use to analysis the difference and association among study variables. The hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) will use to analysis the change pattern of family relationship and quality of life of actual living organ donors.

Project ID:PC10301-0129
External Project ID:NSC102-2628-B182-020-MY3