Articles tagged "Psychosocial"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Patient Perspective of the Implementation of Virtual Medicine in a Post-kidney Transplant Clinic
S. Mann¹, M. Kadatz¹, J. Lan¹, O. Johnston¹, C. Luo²
¹Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: COVID-19 dramatically altered the model of health care delivery for transplant recipients, necessitating the routine use of virtual medicine. This resulted in consequences for…
2021 American Transplant Congress
True Living Donation Experiences: A Thematic Analysis of Storytelling from Kidney Living Donors
E. Ho¹, E. H. Wood², R. Pines³, L. A. Davis⁴, S. M. Advani⁵, A. D. Waterman²
¹Terasaki Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ²UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ³Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA, ⁴DeSales University, Center Valley, PA, ⁵National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH), Bethesda, MD
*Purpose: Personal experiences of living donors (LDs) or recipients (Rs) can motivate more individuals to pursue living donor kidney transplant. After building a library of…
2021 American Transplant Congress
General Public Attitude Toward Vascularized Composite Allografts (VCA) Donation?
M. S. S Gharibdousti¹, M. T Khasawneh¹, A. L Friedman²
¹System Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, Vestal, NY, ²LiveOnNY, New York City, NY
*Purpose: To analyze factors associated with affirmative authorization for VCA donation from public opinion.*Methods: KnowledgePanel is the largest online panel that relies on probability-based sampling…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Serum Phosphatidylethanol is Superior to Urine Ethyl Glucuronide for Detection of Alcohol Use in Pre-transplant Patients
N. Lim¹, T. Leventhal¹, M. Thomson¹, M. Hassan¹, J. Thompson¹, S. Chinnakotla², V. Kirchner², T. Pruett², R. Kandaswamy², V. Humphreville², A. Adams², J. Lake¹
¹Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Division of Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: More patients are presenting for liver transplant (LT) evaluation for alcohol-related liver disease (ALD). Detection of ETOH use has significant implications for patients undergoing…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Ambient Air Pollution and Changes in Cognitive Function Among Kidney Transplant Recipients
Y. Feng¹, M. Jones², N. Chu², D. Segev¹, M. McAdams Demarco¹
¹Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Although cognitive function among kidney failure patients improves after kidney transplant (KT), cognitive impairment is common and associated with worse post-KT outcomes. Particulate matter…
2021 American Transplant Congress
High Interest, Low Payoff: Understanding Opportunities for Intervention for Those Exploring but Not Pursuing Paired Kidney Donation
A. D. Waterman¹, E. H. Wood¹, A. Thomas²
¹UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: In 2016, the National Kidney Registry (NKR) established an online donor screening portal (DASH) to manage and track individuals interested in kidney paired donation…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Loneliness in Adults Awaiting Liver Transplantation at 7 U.S. Transplant Centers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
K. Berry¹, D. Kent¹, S. Seetharaman¹, R. Wong¹, Y. Mohamad¹, F. Yao¹, M. Duarte², B. Boyarsky³, R. Rahimi⁴, A. Duarte-Rojo⁵, M. Kappus⁶, M. Volk⁷, D. Ladner⁸, D. Segev³, M. McAdams-DeMarco³, E. Verna⁹, D. Ganger⁸, J. C. Lai¹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, CA, ³Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Baylor, Dallas, TX, ⁵Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶Duke, Durham, NC, ⁷Loma Linda, Loma Linda, CA, ⁸Northwestern, Chicago, IL, ⁹Columbia, New York, NY
*Purpose: Loneliness, defined by the National Academy of Medicine as “a subjective feeling of being isolated”, has recently emerged as a strong predictor of adverse…
2021 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Health Literacy on Kidney Transplant Listing
G. Chen¹, J. Siahaan², L. Leon Novelo², I. Rizvi³, A. M. De Golovine⁴, A. R. Edwards⁴, A. Pai⁴, W. A. Dar³
¹Abdominal Transplant, Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston, TX, ²Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, School of Public Health The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ³Department of Surgery, McGovern Medical School The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, ⁴Department of Internal Medicine, Renal Diseases and Hypertension, McGovern Medical School The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
*Purpose: Limited health literacy has long been associated with poor health outcomes in the general population, but there have been few studies investigating the association…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Mhealth Family Self-Management Intervention for Families of Transplanted Children
S. M. Lerret¹, R. White-Traut², B. Medoff-Cooper³, S. I. Ahamed⁴, P. Simpson⁵, R. Schiffman⁶
¹Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ²Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ³University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Department of Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, ⁵Department of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ⁶University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
*Purpose: Nearly 2,000 children undergo solid organ transplant in the US annually. In our previous research with transplant families, parents reported difficulty coping with the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Social Support, Social Circumstances and Distance from Transplant Center on Post Liver Transplant Outcomes: An Analysis from a Predominantly Rural U.S. Cohort
R. Kaur¹, C. Lavender¹, E. Askew¹, S. Jafri², R. Thandassery¹, M. Deneke¹
¹University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, ²Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
*Purpose: Social support and social circumstances (SSSC) are critical yet less described entities in post-orthotopic liver transplant (OLT). We aimed to describe SSSC and correlate…

1
2
3
…
31
Next Page »