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Solicited kidney donors: Are they coerced?
Author(s) -
Serur David,
Bretzlaff Gretchen,
Christos Paul,
Desrosiers Farrah,
Charlton Marian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1440-1797
pISSN - 1320-5358
DOI - 10.1111/nep.12551
Subject(s) - coercion (linguistics) , newspaper , medicine , donation , public relations , criminology , sociology , media studies , political science , law , philosophy , linguistics
Most non‐directed donors ( NDDs ) decide to donate on their own and contact the transplant centre directly. Some NDD s decide to donate in response to community solicitation such as newspaper ads or donor drives. We wished to explore whether subtle coercion might be occurring in such NDDs who are part of a larger community. One successful organization in a community in B rooklyn, NY , provides about 50 NDDs per year for recipients within that community. The donors answer ads in local papers and attend donor drives. Herein, we evaluated the physical and emotional outcomes of community‐solicited NDDs in comparison to traditional NDDs who come from varied communities and are not responding to a specific call for donation. An assessment of coercion was used as well.