Measuring the expectations of kidney donors: Initial psychometric properties of the living donation expectancies questionnaire

Transplantation

Volumn 85, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1230-1234

  Rodrigue, James R ^a   Guenther, Robert ^b   Kaplan, Bruce ^c   Mandelbrot, Didier A ^a   Pavlakis, Martha ^a   Howard, Richard J ^d  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectations; Living kidney donation; Motivations; Organ donation; Psychosocial assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; EXPECTATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; KIDNEY DONOR; LIVING DONATION EXPECTANCIES QUESTIONNAIRE; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPHRECTOMY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 43449131261     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e31816c5ab0     Document Type: Article

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