Optimal transplant education for recipients to increase pursuit of living donation.

Context: Inadequate transplant education may stop kidney patients from beginning or completing evaluation or limit recipients from considering living donation.

Objective: To learn about recipients' decision making about living donation and preferred transplant education resources.

Design: Retrospective, cross-sectional survey.

Living donation decision making: recipients' concerns and educational needs.

Context: Despite the advantages of living donor transplantation, evidence suggests that some potential recipients with living donors have psychological concerns that prevent them from pursuing living donation. Addressing these concerns through education may increase the rates of living donation.

Objective: To understand the psychological barriers and educational needs of potential kidney recipients regarding living donation.