Articles tagged "Psychosocial"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Early Transplant Education Increases CKD 3-5 Patients’ Knowledge and Informed Decision-Making About Chronic Kidney Disease and Living Donor Kidney Transplant
A. D. Waterman¹, S. H. Kawakita², B. Dub³, Y. A. Iraheta¹, A. L. Murillo², T. Menser⁴, B. Mittman³
¹UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente, Pasadena, CA, ⁴The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, CA
*Purpose: Early education about chronic kidney disease (CKD) and living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) outside of transplant centers is inconsistent, with patients in CKD 3…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Identifying Barriers to Transition Readiness in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Patients
K. Amatya, S. Yuhas-Schiltz, C. Petyak, A. Moudgil
Nephrology, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Inadequate readiness for transition from pediatric to adult care is associated with loss of transplant, initiation of or return to dialysis, and other negative…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Food Insecurity and Impact on Transplant Outcomes in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Moin, P. Verghese, R. Engen, D. Matossian
Pediatric Nephrology, Lurie Children's Hospital, chicago, IL
*Purpose: Food insecurity (FI), defined as inconsistent access to food or worry over shortage of food that prevents an active and healthy life, has not…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Variability in Educational Content about Kidney Paired Donation at 68 National Kidney Registry-Affiliated Centers
A. D. Waterman¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, E. H. Wood¹, J. L. Beaumont², S. McGuire³, K. Miller⁴, V. Chipman⁵, J. Sinacore⁶, M. Cooper⁷
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UW Health, Madison, WI, ⁵UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ⁶National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY, ⁷Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: Equipping patients and donors with in-depth information about kidney paired donation (KPD) processes, risks, benefits, and protections is necessary for informed decision-making and comfort.…
2020 American Transplant Congress
A Comparison of Kidney Paired Donation Education Delivery Across 68 National Kidney Registry-Affiliated Centers
A. Waterman¹, E. H. Wood¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, J. L. Beaumont², S. McGuire³, K. Miller⁴, V. Chipman⁵, J. Sinacore⁶, M. Cooper⁷
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UW Health, Madison, WI, ⁵UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ⁶National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY, ⁷Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: To understand the kidney paired donation (KPD) educational delivery process and variation across centers affiliated with the National Kidney Registry (NKR) we surveyed transplant…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Predictors of Kidney Transplant Evaluation Attendance
C. G. Ford¹, Y. Leyva¹, Y. Zhu², E. J. Croswell³, C. Puttarajappa⁴, M. A. Dew³, M. L. Unruh², Y. Ng², L. Myaskovsky¹
¹Center for Healthcare Equity in Kidney Disease, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, ²University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, ³University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
*Purpose: Given that clinic non-attendance is associated with worse health outcomes for patients and increased burden for providers, we examined whether patient worry about harm…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Low Food Security in Inner-City Kidney Transplant Recipients is Associated with Worse Graft Function, Lower Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Increased Psychosocial Stress
E. Kasparov, K. Cruickshank, A. Saleh, S. Pak, M. Markell
SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: Long-term kidney graft survival may be affected by factors other than biologic, including social determinants of health. We examined the association of the use…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Patient-Informed Design of an Educational Website on Living Kidney Donation
M. Keller¹, R. Seibert¹, T. Feeley², L. Kayler¹
¹Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, NY, ²University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
*Purpose: Web-based education may be a powerful tool to support kidney patients’ learning about living kidney donation (LKD); however, websites that are not user-friendly can…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Frailty is Strongly Associated with Self-Reported Symptom Burden among Patients with Cirrhosis Undergoing Evaluation for Liver Transplantation
L. X. Deng, K. E. Bischoff, D. S. Kent, D. L. O’Riordan, S. Z. Pantilat, J. C. Lai
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
*Purpose: Among patients with cirrhosis, frailty has most commonly been measured using instruments that focus on malnutrition, muscle wasting, and functional impairment. Little is known…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Challenges to National Kidney Paired Donation Education and Opportunities for Improvement
A. Waterman¹, E. H. Wood¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, J. L. Beaumont², S. McGuire³, K. Miller⁴, V. Chipman⁵, J. Sinacore⁶, M. Cooper⁷
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCLA Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Programs, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴UW Health, Madison, WI, ⁵UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, ⁶National Kidney Registry, Babylon, NY, ⁷Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC
*Purpose: To increase kidney paired donation (KPD) rates nationally, we need to overcome systematic barriers to educating potential donors and recipients consistently about the option…

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