Articles tagged "Psychosocial"

2017 American Transplant Congress
Non-Medical Factors Contributing to Racial Disparity in Kidney Transplant Wait-Listing.
Y.-H. Ng,¹ S. Pankratz,¹ K. Bornemann,² E. Croswell,² J. Pleis,² R. Shapiro,³ M. Unruh,¹ L. Myaskovsky.²
¹Medicine, Nephrology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; ²Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ³Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY
Background: African American (AA) and other minorities (OM) are known to have disproportionately higher incidence of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) but lower rates of kidney…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Potential Living Kidney Donors (LKD) Concerns About Opting Out and Preferences for an 'Alibi'.
K. Yu,¹ C. Thiessen,¹ S. Li,¹ D. Dobosz,¹ J. Gannon,¹ K. Kennedy,² D. Gray,³ A. Mussell,³ P. Reese,³ S. Kulkarni,¹ E. Gordon.²
¹Yale U, New Haven; ²Northwestern U, Chicago; ³U Pennyslvania, Philadelphia
PurposeTo evaluate potential LKDs comfort discussing opting out with their intended recipient (IR) and preferences for alibisMethodsWe conducted a prospective, longitudinal study of potential LKDs…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Ethnicity and Transplant Knowledge Among Canadian ESKD Patients.
D. Wong,¹ H. Ford,¹ C. Lok,¹ G. Nesrallah,² J. Peipert,³ C. Richardson,¹ A. Waterman,³ M. Novak,¹ I. Mucsi.¹
¹University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Humber River Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Background:Living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) offers improved life expectancy and better quality of life compared to deceased donor kidney transplant (DDKT) or dialysis. African and…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Medical Mistrust, Perceived Racism, and Experiences of Medical Discrimination Among Transplant Patients.
R. Hamoda, K. Lipford, L. McPherson, J. Gander, R. Patzer.
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Background: Racial disparities in access to transplantation are well documented, but little is known about how transplant patients' distrust of the healthcare system, perceived medical…
2017 American Transplant Congress
The Impact of Social Support on Kidney Transplant Listing Decisions: Results from a Discrete Choice Experiment.
K. Ladin,^1,2 J. Emerson,² Z. Butt, E. Gordon, D. Hanto, T. Lavelle.²
¹Occupational Therapy, Tufts University, Medford, MA; ²Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Background: Although the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services require that social support be used to determine transplant eligibility, guidance is vague and centers vary…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Substance Use Among Potential Kidney Transplant Candidates and Its Impact on Access to Kidney Transplantation; a Canadian Cohort Study.
E. Tang,¹ A. Bansal,¹ M. Kwok,¹ O. Famure,¹ S. Kim,¹ D. Buchman,² M. Novak,³ I. Mucsi.¹
¹Multiorgan Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Department of Bioethics, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³Department of Psychiatry, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
We assessed 1) the prevalence and associations of substance use among patients undergoing evaluation for kidney transplant (KT); 2) the association between substance use and…
2017 American Transplant Congress
A Possible Unintended Consequence of the Kidney Allocation System: The Effect of Duration of Dialysis on Mental Health Outcomes.
S. Radomski,^1,2 I. Feurer,² R. Forbes,² B. Concepcion,² H. Schaefer.²
¹Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC; ²Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Purpose: Long-term dialysis has been shown to adversely affect physical health-related quality of life (HRQOL) but its effect on mental HRQOL and symptoms of depression…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Discrepancies in Perceived and Measured Cognitive Abilities in Transplant Recipients.
A. Gupta,¹ J. Mahanken,² J. Klein,¹ D. Johnson,³ J. Burns.⁴
¹Nephrology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS; ²Biostatistics, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS; ³Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; ⁴Neurology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City
Aim: Examine how perceived cognitive performance compares with measured cognitive performance in renal transplant recipients.Background: Cognitive abilities affect patients' complex post-transplant care. An accurate assessment…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Educational Strategies for Increased Wait-Listing Rates: Opportunities for Dialysis Center Intervention.
A. Waterman,¹ J. Peipert,¹ H. Xiao,² C. Goalby,¹ K. Lentine.²
¹UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; ²SLU, St. Louis, MO
Dialysis centers vary in how well they educate patients about kidney transplant (KT). This study categorized common groups of educational strategies used by dialysis staff;…
2017 American Transplant Congress
Psychosocial Distress in Chronic Kidney Disease: Benefits of Kidney Transplantation.
C. Richardson,¹ D. Belenko,¹ E. Mucsi,¹ N. Edwards,¹ D. Wong,¹ M. Novak,² M. Li,³ I. Mucsi.¹
¹Multiorgan Transplant Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Department of Psychiatry, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
PurposeWe describe the frequency of psychosocial distress among Canadian patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD), and compare distress between pre-dialysis, dialysis patients and kidney…