Abstract
ABSTRACT The purpose of this meta-analysis was to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of living kidney donors using the 36-item Medical Outcomes Short-Form-36 questionnaire (SF-36). A systematic search of the Web of Science, PubMed, Embase, Elsevier/ScienceDirect, Wanfang, Weipu, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases for studies that used the SF-36 to evaluate the HRQoL of living kidney donors up to April 2020 was performed. Stata version 12.0 (StataCorp LLC, College Station, TX, USA) was used for meta-analysis. In all, nine studies comprising 802 living kidney donors were included in this meta-analysis. The research revealed that living kidney donors were inferior in physical health to the general population with regard to bodily pain (BP), superior to the general population in terms of general health (GH), and exhibited no significant difference from the general population in physical function (PF) and role-physical (RP). In the case of psychological health, living kidney donation had a positive impact on well-screened living kidney donors. Based on our results, clinicians can inform potential kidney donors that there is a low risk in donating a kidney, which contributes to provide guidance to design counseling interventions for both kidney recipients and donors.
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