| Publication |
| Author(s) | Simmons, R.G.; Klein, S.D.; Simmons, R.L. |
| Title | Gift of Life: The Social and Psychological Impact of Organ Transplantation. |
| Source | Wiley, 1977, London, UK |
| Investigation |
| Public | Adult renal patients, followed before and after transplant, USA, 1970-73 |
| Collect period | 10 |
| | Between October 1970 and June 1973 |
| Survey name | Not available |
| Sample | Not available |
| | Non-probability chunk sample of all adult patients who received renal tranplantation or were placed on the list to await a cadaver donor at the University of Minnesota Hospitals between October 1970 and June 1973.
Control groups:
- representative sample of the national population of the USA
in 1965. (Reported in BRADB 1969)
- relatives of transplanted patients who did not donate a kidney |
| Respondents N = | 178 |
| Non Response | 15% |
| Assesment | Questionnaire: paper |
| | T1 right before transplant,T2 1 year after |
| General remarks | At the posttransplant interview the non-response was 25%. The discrepancy in numbers is due to the fact that the study began prior to the development of the questionnaire so that some patients who received a year posttransplant questionnaire were not measured pretransplant. In addition there are no year posttransplant questionnaires for the patients not tranpsplanted in the University of Minnesota Hospitals, nor for the 40 patients who died or rejected their kidney before the year had passed. Three patients refused the questionnaire and only five altogether. |
| Happiness measure(s) used |
| Author's label | | Our subject description |
| Chronic kidney disease | show | Renal failure (n17-19) |
| Earlier happiness | show | Actual transplantation |
| Renal transplantation_A | show | Actual transplantation |
| Renal transplantation_A | show | Earlier medical treatment, also classified as above ↑ |
| Renal transplantation_A | show | Renal failure, also classified as above ↑ |
| Renal transplantation_A | show | Renal failure (n17-19), also classified as above ↑ |
| Renal transplantation_A | show | Surgery, also classified as above ↑ |
| Renal transplantation_B | show | Actual transplantation |
| Renal transplantation_B | show | Earlier life-events, also classified as above ↑ |
| Renal transplantation_B | show | Renal failure (n17-19), also classified as above ↑ |
| Renal transplantation_C | show | Actual transplantation |
| Renal transplantation_C | show | Earlier life-events, also classified as above ↑ |
| Renal transplantation_C | show | Earlier medical treatment, also classified as above ↑ |
| Renal transplantation_C | show | History of current treatment, also classified as above ↑ |