Articles tagged "Psychosocial"

2022 American Transplant Congress
Kidney, Lung and Liver Transplant Patients’, Kidney Transplant Candidates’ and Living Donors’ Perspectives on the Role of Patients’ Stories and Creative Writing in Transplantation: An Exploratory Study
L. Laneuville¹, F. Ballesteros Gallego², A. Affdal², B. Gagnon-Chainey³, L. Brassard², P. Millot³, S. Harel³, C. Mavrikakis³, M. Malo³, M. Fortin²
¹McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, ²CRCHUM, Montreal, QC, Canada, ³University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada
*Purpose: Organ transplantation is associated with medical, psychological and existential challenges for patients. Patients’ experiential knowledge can help other patients facing these challenges. Patients’ stories…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Validation of the PROMIS® Medication Adherence Scale Among Kidney Transplant Recipients on Tacrolimus
J. D. Peipert¹, R. Slay², B. Smith², D. Cella¹, A. Keys², D. Taber²
¹Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ²Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
*Purpose: Kidney transplant recipients (KTR) take a daily regimen of immunosuppression medication that almost inevitably includes tacrolimus (TAC). Non-adherence to TAC is a strong predictor…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Social Determinants of Health and Biochemical Alcohol Relapse in Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease
K. Torosian¹, F. Delebecque², A. Liu², D. Arellano², S. Dave³, G. Schnickel⁴, V. Ajmera³
¹Internal Medicine, University of California San Diego Health, San Diego, CA, ²University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, ³Transplant Hepatology, University of California San Diego Health, San Diego, CA, ⁴Transplant Surgery, University of California San Diego Health, San Diego, CA
*Purpose: Alcohol use after liver transplant is associated with higher rates of graft loss and increased mortality; however, there is limited data regarding the factors…
2022 American Transplant Congress
Attitudes Regarding COVID-19 Vaccine and Vaccine Hesitancy in an Inner-City Kidney Transplant Recipients (KTRs)
E. Bae, L. Wei, C. Canning, S. Martinez-Machado, J. Lee, L. Patel, M. Markell
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY
*Purpose: KTRs comprise a high-risk group for COVID-19 infection due to comorbidities and immunosuppression. Studying how vaccination hesitancy in inner-city KTRs has changed since the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
General Public Attitude Toward Vascularized Composite Allografts (VCA) Donation?
M. S. S Gharibdousti¹, M. T Khasawneh¹, A. L Friedman²
¹System Science and Industrial Engineering, Binghamton University, Vestal, NY, ²LiveOnNY, New York City, NY
*Purpose: To analyze factors associated with affirmative authorization for VCA donation from public opinion.*Methods: KnowledgePanel is the largest online panel that relies on probability-based sampling…
2021 American Transplant Congress
True Living Donation Experiences: A Thematic Analysis of Storytelling from Kidney Living Donors
E. Ho¹, E. H. Wood², R. Pines³, L. A. Davis⁴, S. M. Advani⁵, A. D. Waterman²
¹Terasaki Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ²UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ³Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA, ⁴DeSales University, Center Valley, PA, ⁵National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH), Bethesda, MD
*Purpose: Personal experiences of living donors (LDs) or recipients (Rs) can motivate more individuals to pursue living donor kidney transplant. After building a library of…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Patient Perspective of the Implementation of Virtual Medicine in a Post-kidney Transplant Clinic
S. Mann¹, M. Kadatz¹, J. Lan¹, O. Johnston¹, C. Luo²
¹Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ²Pharmaceutical Sciences, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada
*Purpose: COVID-19 dramatically altered the model of health care delivery for transplant recipients, necessitating the routine use of virtual medicine. This resulted in consequences for…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Posttraumatic Stress and Medication Adherence in Pediatric Transplant Recipients
S. Duncan-Park¹, L. Danziger-Isakov², B. Armstrong³, N. Williams⁴, J. Odim⁴, E. Shemesh⁵, S. Sweet⁶, R. Annunziato¹
¹Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Fordham University, New York, NY, ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, ³Rho Inc., Durham, NC, ⁴NIAID, Bethesda, MD, ⁵Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, ⁶Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
*Purpose: We investigated the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), medication adherence, and quality of life (QoL) in adolescent transplant recipients.*Methods: This protocol of the…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Current Opioid Utilization Practices of Kidney Transplant Centers in the United States: A National Survey of Institutional Practices
A. Lichvar¹, H. Kim¹, A. Ingemi², J. Jarrett¹
¹University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, ²Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, VA
*Purpose: The opioid epidemic in the United States (US) and the known risks of opioid utilization highlight the need for better understanding of pain management…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Gray on the Border: A Closer Look at the Gap in Access to Kidney Transplantation for Hispanic Americans
A. Padilla, M. Mujtaba, R. Samper-Ternent, S. Al Snih, N. Perez, J. Fair, R. Kulkarni, E. Polychronopoulou, M. Kueht
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
*Purpose: Hispanic Americans have disproportionately reduced access to kidney transplantation that is significantly affected by longstanding cultural and geographical disparities. These disparities are multifactorial and…

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