Objective To analyze psychological status of the donors and the recipients before and after the relative kidney transplantation.Method Symptom checklist 90 (SCL-90) were performed for 147 renal transplant recipients and donors preoperative and postoperative.Statistical analysis were performed to analyze the scores between the recipients,donors and normal standards.Results Over 90％ recipients were of obvious anxiety preoperative.The scores of most factors of recipients were significantly higher than those of donors.The scores of somatization,interpersonal sensitivity,depression,anxiety,hostility,phobia and paranoia between two groups has statistical significance(P＜0.05).Part of recipients retest SCL-90 3 month after operation,the data showed that the scores of somatization,interpersonal sensitivity,depression,anxiety,hostility were obviously declined after operation(P＜0.05).And the test also showed that most of the donors were willing to help preoperative.Conclusion Preoperative psychological test was useful in preoperational psychological intervention for transplantation recipients.It can increase the safety of the recipients during perioperative period.