Quality of life and psychological outcome of donors after living donor liver transplantation

Table 4 Donor health related quality of life

Factors	Groups	Groups	Groups	t/F value	P value
SF-36 domains	mean ± SD	mean ± SD	mean ± SD
Gender	Male	Female
General health	75.83 ± 22.09	59.78 ± 12.25		t = 2.661	0.012
Age (yr)	≤ 40	> 40
Social functioning	75.00 ± 12.13	85.71 ± 14.59		t = 2.269	0.031
Mental health	68.89 ± 12.98	82.61 ± 20.00		t = 2.184	0.038
Time since operation (yr)	≤ 1	> 1, ≤ 2	> 2, ≤ 3
Physical functioning	82.50 ± 2.89	94.42 ± 6.661	98.33 ± 2.581	F = 9.394	0.001
Bodily pain	52.67 ± 24.35	70.91 ± 27.572	91.33 ± 13.4312	F = 3.513	0.042
Employment after donation	Full-time	Part-time	No employment
Role-physical	93.64 ± 6.93	76.67 ± 12.913	75.00 ± 22.363	F = 5.790	0.005
General health	69.45 ± 18.014	76.22 ± 18.544	50.67 ± 16.03	F = 3.538	0.041
Vitality	74.24 ± 15.52	46.67 ± 8.123	48.33 ± 14.383	F = 9.018	0.001
Social functioning	84.09 ± 12.31	75.00 ± 14.43	66.67 ± 12.913	F = 4.786	0.016
Mental health	81.82 ± 11.89	52.00 ± 5.243	53.33 ± 11.503	F = 18.137	< 0.001
PCS	58.51 ± 5.31	52.31 ± 5.0134	43.59 ± 5.523	F = 11.051	< 0.001
MCS	54.31 ± 6.00	44.56 ± 3.4234	34.92 ± 2.663	F = 32.748	< 0.001
Recipient health well-being	Well	Poor or death
General health	71.57 ± 19.10	55.42 ± 9.03		t = 2.121	0.042
Social functioning	82.69 ± 11.77	66.67 ± 17.08		t = 2.763	0.010
Role-emotional	87.18 ± 31.38	41.67 ± 46.29		t = 2.603	0.028

Only statistically significant data are displayed.

¹Compared with group “≤ 1 yr”, P < 0.05;

²Compared with group “> 1, ≤ 2 yr”, P < 0.05;

³Compared with group “Full-time”, P < 0.05;

⁴Compared with group “No employment”, P < 0.05. SF-36: Short Form-36; PCS: Physical component summary scale; MCS: Mental component summary scale.