Articles tagged "Psychosocial"

2020 American Transplant Congress
Your Path to Transplant Tailored Education Increases Living Donation Transplant Actions and Wait-Listing Rates: Final Randomized Controlled Trial Findings
A. Waterman¹, Y. Cui², J. L. Beaumont², J. D. Peipert³, A. Paiva⁴, M. L. Robbins⁴
¹Transplant Research and Education Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Terasaki Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ³Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁴Department of Psychology, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
*Purpose: Tailoring education and behavior change interventions to address gaps in individual patients’ knowledge, readiness, and socio-economic challenges may help more end-stage kidney disease patients…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Temporal Trends in Depression and Anxiety in Potential Live Kidney Donors
A. Ravi, D. Bakhai, E. Clifton, S. Norman, A. Naik, Y. Lu, R. Parasuraman, M. Doshi
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
*Purpose: Psychosocial factors, including mental health status, are an important part of donor evaluation due to its altruistic nature. Yet, little is known about the…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Organ and Tissue Donation Education for Transplant Patients Staying at a Transplant Hospitality House Leads to Successful Cornea Donation
T. Giordano¹, L. Suplee², J. L. Weinstock³, R. D. Hasz⁴, H. M. Nathan⁵
¹Family Support Manager, Caregiver Lifeline Program, Gift of Life Family House, Philadelphia, PA, ²Director, Transplant Information Center, Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA, ³Vice President and General Counsel, Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA, ⁴Vice President of Clinical Services, Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA, ⁵President and CEO, Gift of Life Donor Program, Philadelphia, PA
*Purpose: A transplant hospitality house (THH) serving multiple transplant centers is directly connected to its region’s Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) and offers formal education to…
2020 American Transplant Congress
“By the Time They Get to Me, I’ll Be Dead Anyway” – A Mixed-Methods Examination of Treatment Education & Decision-Making among Patients with Varying Amounts of Pre-End-Stage Renal Disease Nephrology Care
M. Urbanski¹, L. Dumenci¹, C. Gadegbeku², L. Siminoff¹, A. Waterman³, H. Gardiner¹
¹College of Public Health, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ²Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Section of Nephrology, Hypertension, and Kidney Transplantation, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, ³UCLA, Division of Nephrology, Los Angeles, CA
*Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore renal replacement therapy (RRT) knowledge and decision-making experiences and preferences among patients with varying amounts of…
2020 American Transplant Congress
Prevalence of Frailty and Cognitive Impairment at Time of Kidney Transplant Evaluation
J. Klein, A. Jurgensen, M. Gupta, N. Herrera, A. Gupta, D. Cibrik
Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
*Purpose: Frailty is highly prevalent in kidney disease, with prevalence estimates as high as 73% in patients at the time of dialysis initiation compared to…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Impact of Race and Substance Use on Listing Decisions for Kidney Transplant
R. N. DeBlasio¹, L. Myaskovsky², K. Kendall¹, A. DiMartini¹, G. Switzer¹, D. M. Posluszny¹, C. Puttarajappa¹, A. D. Tevar¹, S. Hariharan¹, R. Shapiro³, M. A. Dew¹
¹U Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²U New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, ³Mt Sinai Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute, New York, NY
*Purpose: Racial/ethnic minority patients face reduced access to kidney transplantation. We hypothesized that this disparity may be magnified if patients also have major psychosocial liabilities…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Health Utility And Social Distress In Kidney Transplant (KT) Recipients
S. Macanovic¹, D. Li¹, B. Liao¹, I. Escudero¹, V. Shah², A. Nagee², A. Che², R. Khairalla², M. Novak³, I. Mucsi¹
¹Division of Nephrology and Multi-Organ Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, ²University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, ³Centre for Mental Health, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: Preference-based measures of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) or health utility, such as the EuroQol-5D5L (EQ5), cover multiple health domains and are combined into…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Transplant Regimen Adherence For Kidney Recipients By Engaging Information Technologies: The Take It Trial
D. P. Ladner¹, M. S. Wolf²
¹Surgery, Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL, ²General Internal Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: Several studies report a high prevalence of inadequate adherence to prescribed (Rx) immunosuppressive (IS) medication regimens among kidney transplant (KT) recipients, yet few interventions…
2019 American Transplant Congress
The Implementation and Impact of an Opioid Minimization Protocol in an Urban Renal Transplant Population
A. Lichvar, M. Campara, E. Benedetti, J. Benken
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: The opioid epidemic within the United States has devastated patients and their families in addition to triggering a national public health crisis. Unnecessary prescribing…
2019 American Transplant Congress
Self-reported Marijuana Use In Kidney Transplant Candidates And Its Association With Access To Transplantation
S. Rodriguez Ramirez, E. Tang, O. Famure, A. Bansal, J. Kim, I. Mucsi
Kidney Transplant, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
*Purpose: In light of the current legislative changes in Canada, and the variable approach to marijuana use in the United States, it is important to…