Recent Findings from University of California School of Medicine Advance Knowledge in Clinical Nursing [Spirituality and religiosity of non-directed (altruistic) living kidney donors]
By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Blood Weekly -- A new study on Nursing - Clinical Nursing is now available. According to news reporting originating in Los Angeles, California, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “To describe the spirituality and religiosity of 30 non-directed (altruistic) living kidney donors in the USA and explore how they may have affected their motivations to donate and donation process experiences. The rise in non-directed donors and their ability to initiate kidney chains offer a novel approach to help alleviate the overextended kidney transplant wait list in the USA.”
Funders for this research include National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health.
The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of California School of Medicine, “However, little is known about the non-directed donors’ motivations, characteristics and experiences. We conducted a qualitative-dominant study and used a grounded theory approach to analyse data. Thirty participants completed in-depth interviews between April 2013-April 2015. Three analysts independently read and coded interview transcripts. Grounded theory techniques were used to develop descriptive categories and identify topics related to the non-directed donors donation experience. Sixteen of the 30 non-directed donorss discussed the topic of spirituality and religiosity when describing their donation experiences, regardless of whether they were actively practising a religion at the time of donation. Specifically, three themes were identified within spirituality and religiosity: motivation to donate, support in the process, and justification of their donation decisions postdonation. Findings from this study are the first to describe how spirituality and religiosity influenced the experiences of U.S. non-directed donorss and may help improve non-directed donors educational resources for future spiritual or religious non-directed donors, and the overall non-directed donors donation experience in efforts to increase the living donor pool. Spirituality and religiosity are often overlooked yet potentially influential factors in Western medicine, as demonstrated through the experiences of Jehovah’s Witnesses and their religious restrictions while undergoing surgery and the beliefs of Christian Scientists against taking medications and receiving medical procedures.”
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Understanding needs of non-directed donors specifically with spirituality and religiosity can better position kidney transplant centres and teams to improve predonation screening of non-directed donor candidates and provide support services during the donation process.”
For more information on this research see: Spirituality and religiosity of non-directed (altruistic) living kidney donors. Journal of Clinical Nursing , 2017;():. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; Journal of Clinical Nursing - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2702)
Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting A. Maghen, Dept. of Urology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States. Additional authors for this research include G.B. Vargas, S.E. Connor, S. Nassiri, E.M. Hicks, L. Kwan, A.D. Waterman, S.L. Maliski and J.L Veale.
The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14223. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.
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CITATION: (2018-03-22), Recent Findings from University of California School of Medicine Advance Knowledge in Clinical Nursing [Spirituality and religiosity of non-directed (altruistic) living kidney donors], Blood Weekly, 180, ISSN: 1532-4559, BUTTER® ID: 015320299
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I was not aware of this!!! Are some religions more likely to participate? If so, which ones?