Articles tagged "Psychosocial"

2016 American Transplant Congress
Qualitative Assessment of Patient-Perceived Treatment Burden Following Cardiac Transplantation.
K. Deininger,¹ J. Reich,¹ J. Hirsch,² S. Graveline,² A. Feist,² J. LaFleur,³ S. Smith,⁴ A. Ambardekar,¹ J. Lindenfeld,⁵ C. Aquilante.¹
¹University of Colorado, Aurora, CO; ²University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA; ³University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; ⁴University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; ⁵Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
Patient-perceived treatment burden (PPTB), i.e., “the work of being a patient,” following heart transplantation (HTx) can affect patients' experiences of care, sense of self-efficacy in…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Peer Mentoring to Improve Access to Kidney Transplantation in the Southeast.
J. Gander,¹ S. McMath,² M. Rudd,² L. Sauls,³ S. Tripathi,¹ L. Plantinga,¹ L. McPherson,¹ T. Browne,⁴ S. Pastan,¹ R. Patzer.¹
¹Emory University, Atlanta; ²Georgia Transplant Foundation, Atlanta; ³ESRD Network 6, Raleigh; ⁴University of South Carolina, Columbia.
BACKGROUND The Southeastern Kidney Transplant Coalition's (SEKTC) mission is to improve the low kidney transplantation (KTx) rate in the North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Managing the Kidney Waiting List: Pride and Prejudice.
F. Smith,¹ C. Sheehan,¹ A. Farney,¹ J. Rogers,¹ G. Orlando,¹ A. Reeves-Daniel,² A. Palanisamy,² R. Stratta.¹
¹Surgery, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC; ²Internal Medicine, Wake Forest, Winston-Salem, NC.
Management of the kidney waiting list (WL) is an essential and dynamic aspect of the pretransplant process; however, it remains under-studied and underappreciated. The study…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Health Insurance Trends in United States Living Kidney Donors.
J. Rodrigue,^1,2 A. Fleishman.¹
¹Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; ²Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
The aim of this study was to examine health insurance trends in living kidney donors (LKDs) in the United States and their association with donor…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Prospective Investigation of the Reliability and Validity of the Live Donor Assessment Tool (LDAT).
D. LaPointe Rudow, A. Shenoy, J. Hunt, Z. Filipovic-Jewell, B. Haydel, B. Iacoviello.
Recanati Miller Transplantation Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
Purpose: The LDAT was the first psychosocial assessment instrument developed to standardize the live donor (LD) psychosocial evaluation (PsychE). Previously, it was found to be…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: How Do Recipients Benefit Psychologically?
H. Maple,¹ J. Chilcot,² J. Weinman,² N. Mamode.¹
¹Department of Transplantation, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; ²Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Living donor kidney transplantation remains the gold standard treatment for end-stage renal failure. There is an assumption amongst the transplant community that the physical…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Living Kidney Donor Priorities for Outcomes: A Nominal Group Technique Study.
C. Hanson,^1,2 J. Kanellis,^3,4 G. Wong,^1,2 J. Pinter,² S. Chadban,^5,6 J. Chapman,⁷ J. Craig,^1,2 J. Gill,⁸ A. Garg,⁹ J. Lewis,^1,2 A. Tong.^1,2
¹Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ²Centre for Kidney Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia; ³Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; ⁴Department of Nephrology, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia; ⁵Department of Renal Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ⁶Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; ⁷Centre for Transplant and Renal Research, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia; ⁸Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; ⁹Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Western University, London, Canada.
Background: Living kidney donors face risks associated with nephrectomy. While this is justified with informed consent, screening and follow up, the outcomes that are most…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Nondirected Kidney Donation – Donating More Than a Kidney.
C. Jacobs,¹ J. Wiseman,¹ D. Berglund,¹ D. Larson,¹ C. Garvey,¹ M. Vogues,¹ S. Rein,¹ O. Sanchez,¹ C. Radecki Breitkopf,² H. Ibrahim,¹ A. Matas.¹
¹U of MN, Mpls; ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester.
Little is known about donation-related out-of-pocket costs incurred by NDD. For NDD, we studied: resources used to cover these costs; level of stress due to…
2016 American Transplant Congress
An Assurance of Insurance: Should Living Kidney Donors Be Required to Have Health Insurance?
J. Siegel,¹ A. Humar,² P. Gianaros,¹ J. Steel.²
¹Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; ²Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Lack of health insurance has been related lack of access to health care, poorer health, and increased mortality. In this study, we investigate sociodemographic predictors…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Motivation and Stress Associated with Non-Directed Kidney Donation.
J. Wiseman,¹ D. Berglund,¹ C. Jacobs,¹ D. Larson,¹ C. Garvey,¹ M. Vogues, S. Rein,¹ O. Sanchez,¹ C. Radecki Breitkopf,² H. Ibrahim,¹ A. Matas.¹
¹U of MN, Mpls; ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester.
Background: Nondirected kidney donors (NDDs) are unique in that they have the risks of nephrectomy but often do not have the benefit of seeing the…