Living Kidney Organ Donation
Decision Making and Outcomes Study

National Institute of Nursing Research
National Institutes of Health
1RO1 NR 008727-01A1
Direct Costs: $1,179,636
6/1/05 - 5/31/09>

The purpose of this study is to explore how living kidney donor candidates make the decision regarding organ donation. Also, the donor candidates' perceptions of the donor evaluation, donation, and recovery process will be described.

This study will provide information that can be used to guide living donor education and informed consent. Findings on donor and family outcomes will be used to develop post-donation counseling protocols in particular, when the recipient outcome is not good or when donors report stressful responses. Read Study Abstract

Meet the Investigators

• Marie T. Nolan, PhD, RN, JHU School of Nursing
• Anne Belcher, PhD, RN, JHU School of Nursing
• Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, JHU School of Medicine
• Linda Rose, PhD, RN, JHU School of Nursing
• Keith Melancon, MD, JHU School of Medicine
• Kathryn Dane, BSN, RN, Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Sherrie Klunk, BSN, RN, Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Laura Taylor, PhD, RN, JHU School of Nursing
• Megan Foradori, BSN, RN, Senior Research Program Coordinator

• Nolan, M., Walton-Moss, B., Taylor, L & Dane, K. (2004). Living kidney donor decision-making: state of the science and directions for future research. Progress in Transplantation, 14 (2), 201-209.

• Walton-Moss, BJ, Taylor, L. & Nolan, MT. (2005). Ethical analysis of living organ donation. Progress in Transplantation,15 (3), 303-309.

• Walton-Moss, BJ, Boulware, LE, Cooper, M., Taylor, L., Dane, K. & Nolan, MT (under review). Prospective pilot study of living kidney donor decision making and outcomes. Clinical Transplantation.