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Quality of life, anxiety and depression symptoms in living related kidney donors: a cross‑sectional study

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Abstract

Objectives

Few studies have examined the quality of life of living kidney donors in mainland China. The data on anxiety and depression of living kidney donors was also scant. This study aimed to investigate quality of life, anxiety, and depression and identify their influencing factors among living kidney donors in mainland China.

Methods

A cross-sectional study included 122 living kidney donors from a kidney transplantation center in China. The abbreviated World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire, Generalized Anxiety Disorder 2‐item and Patient Health Questionnaire 2-item were used to assess the quality of life, anxiety and depression symptoms, respectively.

Results

Our study found that the physical related quality of life of our donors was poorer than that of the domestic general population. Among 122 donors, 43.4% and 29.5% of them were found to have anxiety and depression symptoms, respectively. Poor health condition of recipient was identified as not only negative factors affecting all domains of quality of life, but also closely related to anxiety and depression of kidney donors. Donors with proteinuria were more likely to have a poor psychological, social related quality of life, as well as anxiety and depression symptoms.

Conclusions

Living kidney donation has an impact on the physical and mental health of donors. Both the physical and mental health of living kidney donors should not be ignored. More attention and support should be given to donors with proteinuria and donors whose relative recipient suffering poor health condition.

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 71603272 and grant number 71974008).

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  1. School of Nursing, Peking University, Beijing, 100191, China

    Yuexian Shi

  2. National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases and Beijing Key Laboratory of Tolerance Induction and Organ Protection in Transplantation, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, 100050, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Haiming Zhang

  3. Department of Liver Transplantation, Tianjin First Center Hospital, Tianjin, 300192, China

    Zhaoling Nie

  4. Kidney Transplant department (Liver transplant department), Transplant Center, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Disease, Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

    Yingxin Fu

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Shi, Y., Zhang, H., Nie, Z. et al. Quality of life, anxiety and depression symptoms in living related kidney donors: a cross‑sectional study. Int Urol Nephrol 55, 2335–2343 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11255-023-03542-z

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