Quality of life of living kidney donors in Brazil: an evaluation by the short form-36 and the WHOQOL-bref questionnaires.

Introduction: There are few studies that evaluate donors' quality of life (QOL) following renal transplant in developing countries. This study was conducted to evaluate post-donation QOL of Brazilian living kidney donors using SF-36 and WHOQOL-bref questionnaires.

Subjects And Methods: Demographic, socioeconomic and the QOL data were analyzed utilizing SF-36 and WHOQOL-bref questionnaires of 69 living kidney donors and compared with 68 non-donor subjects from the same community.