فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Background and aim: Kidney transplantation is the best treatment for patients with end stage renaldisease. Living donor kidney transplantation is increasingly performed in Iran. Since the quality oflife of live kidney donors has been subjected to little investigation, the present study was conductedto investigate the quality of life of live kidney donors in Tehran in 2012-2013.Materials and methods: This is a descriptive study conducted on 45 donors living in Tehran in 2012-2013. Sample selection was started by recruiting convenient samples following by snow ballsampling. Data were collected by a questionnaire consisting of as a three sections: demographicinformation, SF-36 quality of life questionnaire and researcher made questionnaire .The data wereanalyzed by SPSS 19 .Results: Mean age of the donors was 34/4 year. 62/2 % of the donors were men. The quality of lifeof 66/7 % of donors in physical, 60 % in mental and 48/9 % in social domain were classified asmoderate (score:34-66). The mean score of quality of life of donors was 59. 59.58 % of theparticipants donated their kidney for financial reasons and there was no significant correlationbetween the quality of life scores and reason for donation. 31 % of the donors regretted thedonation.68/8% of donors do not encourage donation and recommend it to others and the averagescore of these donors is less than the donors who recommend donation(p <0/001)Conclusion: The quality of life of kidney donors in this study was moderate. It is worthwhile tofollow up the donors and to assess physical and mental problem of donors after donation in order toreduce subjective outcomes and regret in donors. There is a need for financial support of kidneydonors.Key words: Quality of life , Kidney donation, Live donor