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Rethinking elements of informed consent for living kidney donation: findings from a New Zealand study.
- Source :
- Health Sociology Review; 2015, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p109-122, 14p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Living kidney donation is an alternative treatment option for end-stage renal failure. Prospective donors are protected from risk by counselling and assessment processes, to ensure they are fully informed about all the stages of donation. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 25 living kidney donors from across New Zealand, this article discusses donors' experience of the pre-donation screening process, donation workup coordination, psychological preparation, and post-operative follow-up care and support. In particular, the article examines donor perceptions of the informed consent process. The findings indicate that donors' experience of the consent process may be at odds with the New Zealand Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights 1996. Instead of a primary healthcare focus on the threshold elements of informed consent, this study indicates that more effort should be made to adequately inform donors and to clearly spell out each stage of the donation process to better meet donors' needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- TREATMENT of chronic kidney failure
ALTRUISM
COMMUNICATION
CONVALESCENCE
DECISION making
ORGAN donation
EMPLOYMENT
HEALTH status indicators
INFORMED consent (Medical law)
INTERVIEWING
KIDNEY transplantation
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL appointments
MEDICAL personnel
PATIENT-professional relations
MOTIVATION (Psychology)
PATIENT compliance
PATIENT education
PATIENTS
PHYSICIANS
POSTOPERATIVE care
PSYCHOLOGISTS
RELIGION
RESEARCH funding
RESOURCE allocation
HEALTH self-care
SURGEONS
TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.
QUALITATIVE research
ORGAN donors
FAMILY relations
SOCIAL support
NARRATIVES
THEMATIC analysis
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14461242
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Health Sociology Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 102654388
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2015.1016993