Articles tagged "Psychosocial"

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…
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…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Psychiatric Recommendations for Patients Pursing Kidney Transplantation
M. Jesse, A. Eshelman, T. Rosetti, M. Abouljoud, J. Denny, A. Patel, D. Kim.
Transplant Institute, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI.
Introduction: End-stage renal disease patients have high rates of psychiatric and cognitive pathologies. Despite this, renal transplant candidates do not routinely undergo comprehensive psychiatric evaluation.…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Kidney Transplant Patients' Attitudes Towards Self-Management Support: A Q-Methodological Study
E. Massey,¹ J. Grijpma,¹ M. Tielen,¹ A. Van Staa,² L. Maasdam,¹ T. Van Gelder,¹ S. Berger,¹ J. Van Busschbach,¹ M. Betjes,¹ W. Weimar.¹
¹Internal Medicine - Nephrology and Transplantation, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands; ²Research Center Innovations in Care, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Introduction: The objective of this study was to identify profiles of kidney transplant recipients with varying preferences and needs for self-management support (SMS). Insight in…
2015 American Transplant Congress
Long-Term Impact of Live Liver Donation: A Self Report of the Donation Experience
D. LaPointe Rudow,¹ S. DeLair,² S. Florman,¹ J. Guarrera,³ M. Kinkhabwala,⁴ M. Orloff,⁵ Y. Wu,⁶ L. Teperman.⁷
¹Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY; ²NYCLT, Albany, NY; ³New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY; ⁴Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY; ⁵University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY; ⁶Westchester Medical Center, Valhala, NY; ⁷New York University Hospitals Center, New York, NY.
Introduction: Recipient outcomes of LDLT are well reported, however outcomes for adult to adult living liver donors (LD) are based on short term data. Much…