Articles tagged "Psychosocial"

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…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplant Predicts Immunosuppression Non-Adherence after Liver Transplantation
S. Deutsch-Link¹, E. Weinberg², M. McDougal³, L. Jones⁴, T. Bitterman², M. Serper²
¹Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴PCOM, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: Patients with end-stage liver disease presenting for liver transplant (LT) evaluation have a high burden of psychosocial comorbidities. The Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Resilience in Heart Transplant Candidates
Y. T. Bui¹, D. S. Yip², B. W. Hardaway³, S. M. Dunlay⁴, S. Jowsey-Gregoire⁵, R. Benzo⁶, R. C. Daly⁷, M. A. Hathcock⁸, K. Thompson⁹, C. C. Kennedy¹⁰
¹Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Rochester, MN, ²Department of Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, ³Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ, ⁴Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁵Department of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁶Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁷Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁸Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ⁹Pulmonary Clinical Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ¹⁰William J. von Liebig Center for Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
*Purpose: Resilience is the capacity to adapt to or recover from adverse experiences. Our objective was to measure resilience in waitlisted, adult heart transplant candidates…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Attitudes Toward Organ, Tissue, and Vascularized Composite Allograft Donation and Transplantation: A Survey of United States Military Veterans
J. R. Rodrigue¹, S. Ward¹, M. Boger², A. Fleishman¹, J. Shenkel¹, A. Calvo¹, R. Zwolak³, N. Krishnan⁴, B. Pomahac⁵
¹Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, ²New England Donor Services, Waltham, MA, ³Veterans Affairs Medical Center, White River Junction, VT, ⁴Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, CT, ⁵Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
*Purpose: There are nearly 20 million living US armed forces veterans; however, the veteran community has not been the focus of any studies on organ…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Preferences of Potential Living Kidney Donors on Strategies to Reduce Donation-Related Financial Burden
A. D. Waterman¹, O. N. Ranasinghe¹, Y. Cui², J. L. Beaumont², D. Adey³, B. Campbell⁴, F. L. Weng⁵
¹Division of Nephrology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³UCSF Health, San Francisco, CA, ⁴Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵St. Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ
*Purpose: To identify the severity of financial and employment challenges present for potential living kidney donors and the value of strategies to make kidney donation…