To systematically evaluate the qualitative studies on the psychological experience of living donors after liver transplantation, analyzing the psychological experience of living donors after liver transplantation, so as to provide a basis for formulating intervention measures to meet their inner needs.

Qualitative studies on postoperative psychological experience and life experience of living liver transplant donors were searched by computer on PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane Library, EBSCO, CNKI, Wanfang Database, China Biology Medicine disc, VIP and other databases. The search period was from the establishment of the database to November 30, 2022. The quality of the included studies was evaluated using the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) Evidence-Based HealthCare Quality Evaluation Criteria (2016) , and the results were integrated using a pooled integration approach.

A total of 10 articles were included, 29 main results were extracted and summarized into 6 new categories. The 3 integrated results were negative psychological experience of living liver transplant donors after surgery, positive psychological experience of living liver transplant donors after surgery, and psychological support needs of living liver transplant donors after surgery.

Nurses should pay attention to the negative psychological experience of living donors after liver transplantation, strengthen their positive psychological experience, help them get more family and social support after liver transplantation and meet their psychological and physiological support needs.

Liver transplantation; Living donors; Psychological experience; Qualitative study; Meta-integration