Exploring the mental health of living kidney donors

234 Pages·2015·2.1 MB·English

Exploring the mental health
of living kidney donors
Lotte Timmerman
Exploring the
Onderzoek naar de
mental health
geestelijke gezondheid
of living
van levende nierdonoren
kidney donors
Lotte Timmerman
© 2015, Lotte Timmerman, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
book design Martijn de Wilde
print Gildeprint
fnancial support for printing Astellas Pharma bv,
Nederlandse Transplantatie Vereniging,
Nierstichting, ZonMw
isbn 978 94 6233 096 2
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Exploring the Mental Health of Living Kidney Donors
Onderzoek naar de geestelijke gezondheid van levende nierdonoren
Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam op gezag van de rector magnifcus
prof.dr. H.A.P. Pols en volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties.
De openbare verdediging zal plaatsvinden op woensdag 2 december 2015
om 15:30 uur door Lotte Timmerman, geboren te Zierikzee.
promotiecommissie
promotoren
Prof. dr. W. Weimar
Prof. dr. J.J. van Busschbach
overige leden
Prof. dr. J.N.M. IJzermans
Prof. dr. A.W.M. Evers
Prof. dr. A.V. Ranchor
copromotor
Dr. E.K. Massey
contents
1 Introduction 7
2 Predonation psychosocial evaluation of living kidney and 17
liver  donor candidates: a systematic literature review
3 Who has extreme expectations of donation? 47
Exploring the psychological profle of living kidney donors
4 Exploring knowledge about dialysis, transplantation, 63
and  living donation among patients and their living
kidney donors
5 Psychologic functioning of unspecifed anonymous living 87
k idney donors before and after donation
6 An argument to abolish legal restrictions on unspecifed 105
living kidney donation
7 Mental health among living kidney donors: 111
a prospective comparison with matched controls from
the general population
8 The impact of the donors’ and recipients’ medical 135
p rocess on living kidney donors’ mental health
9 Predicting mental health after living kidney donation: 159
the importance of psychological factors
10 Discussion 189
11 Summary | Samenvatting 205
12 Appendices 221
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Introduction
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8 Exploring the mental health of living kidney donors