A Study on Experience and Decision-Making of Adult Living-donors Liver Transplantation
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Liu, I-Lu
Abstract
As the shortage of number of body liver donors and the treatment needs for terminally ill patients. Face of living donor liver transplants gifts, donors in the process of decision-making, often the patient''s life is top priority. But, donors had undertaken during the medical risks and no health benefits at all. So to make decisions often have to face personal, family, social and cultural considerations at all levels. With the rate of living donor liver transplantation to increase, there will be more and more living liver donor, for the medical needs of these clients, it is worthy of further in-depth understanding of medical staff. The purpose of this study is to understand the experience and decision-making of adult living-donors liver transplantation.
In this study, a medical center in northern Taiwan were recruited on August 97 to 98 years in August, enrolled a total of 11 donors, an focus ethnographic study method was applied. The subjective life experiences of these donors were collected using semi-structured deep interviews and participatory observations and the results were analyzed and complied in order to study the effect and meanings of decision-making of adult living-donors liver transplantation on their lives.
The study found that the donor liver in the donor before making any decision to do after all kinds of inner conflicts. After the decision to donate the liver, donors efforts to find spiritual balance. Although the decision-making experience and major surgery with life events is contradictory. In contrast, the inner peace and rebirth has thus been. May be encountered during the care recipient is not the situation of new life, this stage to make the donor feel really angry and powerlessness. But they eventually that "donated liver" at least had a hard and pay, the mind will not leave regrets.
The study results will help health professionals and the public to understand the experience and decision-making of adult living-donors liver transplantation, and the decision on which tax the liver donors the impact of physical and mental level, and how to assist donors through the process to reduce the impact of the process.
Subjects
Adult living-donors liver transplantation
Decision-making
Live experience
Type
thesis
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