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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cell Tissue Bank. 2010 Dec 8;13(1):89–101. doi: 10.1007/s10561-010-9233-1

Table 4.

Feelings about being approached to consider brain donation (N = 50)

Categories Examples Total (%)
‘Positive’ comments Fine, happy, glad, pleased, relieved, good, positive, willing to help, comfortable 30.0
‘Neutral’ comments Surprise, okay, unsure, understand, caught off guard, fair 42.0
‘Negative’ comments Shocked, numb, apprehensive, sad, uncomfortable, taken aback 36.0

Some individual responses fit more than one category