Articles tagged "Psychosocial"

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…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Differences in Reported Barriers to Immunosuppression Adherence Among a Cohort of Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients from the United States and Canada.
O. Bignall II,^1,2 A. Pai,² S. Amaral,³ S. Furth,³ N. Bergman,² J. Goebel,⁴ The TAKE-IT Study Investigators, B. Foster.⁵
¹Nephrology and Hypertension, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH; ²Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH; ³Nephrology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; ⁴Nephrology, Children's Hospital of Colorado, Aurora, CO; ⁵Nephrology, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Aim: The purpose of this study was to examine differences in reported barriers to immunosuppressant adherence (IA) between a cohort of pediatric renal transplant recipients…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Gender Bias and Kidney Transplantation in Nepal.
S. Rasmussen,¹ P. Paneru,² D. Segev,¹ A. Massie,¹ P. Shrestha.³
¹JHU, Baltimore; ²BPKIHS, Dharan, Nepal; ³Human Organ Transplant Center, Bhaktapur, Nepal.
Gender bias in live kidney donation (LKD) is well documented globally but is particularly extreme in Nepal, where 84% of recipients, but only 25% of…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Barriers to Living Donor Kidney Transplant in the Pediatric Population.
S. Taormina,¹ M. Galloway,² A. Jain.³
¹Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI; ²Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences and Department of Anesthesiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI; ³Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI.
Objective:A shift from living donor transplants to deceased donor transplants has been noted nationwide and is more prominent at some centers than others. Our objective…
2016 American Transplant Congress
In Their Own Words: Living Kidney Donors Who Develop Kidney Failure.
L. Ross,¹ C. Halverson,² J. Wang,¹ M. Poulson,³ J. Karlin,⁴ M. Crowley-Matoka.⁵
¹U Chicago, Chicago, IL; ²Anthropology, U Chicago, Chicago, IL; ³Georgetown U, Washington, DC; ⁴Family Medicine, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; ⁵Medical Humanities, Northwestern U, Chicago, IL.
Background: Psychosocial data about living kidney donation have been collected for almost five decades. The results are almost uniformly positive, even in the early years…
2016 American Transplant Congress
Use of the Psychosocial Assessment Tool to Identify Risk in Families of Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients.
E. Fredericks, T. Smith, J. Sevecke, S. Eder, C. Limke, C. Shneider, M. Lopez.
Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Purpose: Although families of pediatric liver transplant recipients have documented psychosocial needs, the systematic identification of needs and delivery of evidence-based care remain challenging. This…