Department of Internal Medicine, Santa Casa of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, SP, Brazil.
Clin Transplant. 2009 Sep-Oct;23(5):621-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2009.01048.x. Epub 2009 Aug 2.
There are few studies that evaluate donors' quality of life (QOL) following renal transplant in developing countries. This study was conducted to evaluate post-donation QOL of Brazilian living kidney donors using SF-36 and WHOQOL-bref questionnaires.
Demographic, socioeconomic and the QOL data were analyzed utilizing SF-36 and WHOQOL-bref questionnaires of 69 living kidney donors and compared with 68 non-donor subjects from the same community.
The donors and controls were similar as for gender and ethnicity, predominating the female. There was no difference in the educational level or socioeconomic class between the groups, the lower income being more prevalent. The evaluation of the donors' QOL was not significantly different from that of the control group. In some domains of the SF-36 and of the WHOQOL-bref questionnaires, donors scored higher than controls. Even the evaluation of the QOL of donors whose recipients had suffered loss of the graft or death following renal transplantation, showed in a general manner a similar QOL to the controls.
Living kidney donors in a mainly low-income segment of the Brazilian population present a post-donation quality of life equal or superior to that of the non-donor population with the same socioeconomic profile. The two generic instruments used to evaluate the quality of life presented similar results.
在发展中国家，很少有研究评估肾移植后供体的生活质量（QOL）。本研究旨在使用 SF-36 和 WHOQOL-bref 问卷评估巴西活体肾供体的捐后 QOL。
利用 SF-36 和 WHOQOL-bref 问卷分析 69 名活体肾供体的人口统计学、社会经济学和 QOL 数据，并将其与来自同一社区的 68 名非供体受试者进行比较。
供体和对照组在性别和种族方面相似，女性居多。两组在教育水平或社会经济阶层方面没有差异，低收入者更为普遍。供体 QOL 的评估与对照组没有显著差异。在 SF-36 和 WHOQOL-bref 问卷的一些领域，供体的评分高于对照组。即使评估那些接受肾移植后移植物丧失或死亡的供体的 QOL，总体上也显示出与对照组相似的 QOL。
巴西主要低收入人群中的活体肾供体在捐后生活质量方面与具有相同社会经济状况的非供体人群相当或更高。用于评估生活质量的两种通用工具得出了相似的结果。
