Articles tagged "Psychosocial"

2021 American Transplant Congress
Psychosocial Determinants of Regimen Adherence Among Kidney Transplant Recipients
A. Balakrishnan, S. Bailey, D. Mroczek, M. Serper, D. P. Ladner, M. S. Wolf
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
*Purpose: There is increasing evidence suggesting a high prevalence of inadequate medication adherence among kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) and its subsequent consequences on health outcomes.…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Experiential Expertise: What Can Patients and Donors Teach Us About Living Donation?
L. A. Davis¹, E. H. Wood², E. Ho³, R. Pines⁴, S. M. Advani⁵, A. D. Waterman²
¹DeSales University, Center Valley, PA, ²UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ³Terasaki Institute, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA, ⁵National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
*Purpose: While educational materials and discussions with medical professionals are factually sound, insight from actual living donors (LDs) and recipients (Rs) may offer unique, experiential…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Loneliness in Adults Awaiting Liver Transplantation at 7 U.S. Transplant Centers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
K. Berry¹, D. Kent¹, S. Seetharaman¹, R. Wong¹, Y. Mohamad¹, F. Yao¹, M. Duarte², B. Boyarsky³, R. Rahimi⁴, A. Duarte-Rojo⁵, M. Kappus⁶, M. Volk⁷, D. Ladner⁸, D. Segev³, M. McAdams-DeMarco³, E. Verna⁹, D. Ganger⁸, J. C. Lai¹
¹UCSF, San Francisco, CA, ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, CA, ³Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, ⁴Baylor, Dallas, TX, ⁵Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁶Duke, Durham, NC, ⁷Loma Linda, Loma Linda, CA, ⁸Northwestern, Chicago, IL, ⁹Columbia, New York, NY
*Purpose: Loneliness, defined by the National Academy of Medicine as “a subjective feeling of being isolated”, has recently emerged as a strong predictor of adverse…
2021 American Transplant Congress
High Interest, Low Payoff: Understanding Opportunities for Intervention for Those Exploring but Not Pursuing Paired Kidney Donation
A. D. Waterman¹, E. H. Wood¹, A. Thomas²
¹UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, ²Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: In 2016, the National Kidney Registry (NKR) established an online donor screening portal (DASH) to manage and track individuals interested in kidney paired donation…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Ambient Air Pollution and Changes in Cognitive Function Among Kidney Transplant Recipients
Y. Feng¹, M. Jones², N. Chu², D. Segev¹, M. McAdams Demarco¹
¹Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, ²Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
*Purpose: Although cognitive function among kidney failure patients improves after kidney transplant (KT), cognitive impairment is common and associated with worse post-KT outcomes. Particulate matter…
2021 American Transplant Congress
Serum Phosphatidylethanol is Superior to Urine Ethyl Glucuronide for Detection of Alcohol Use in Pre-transplant Patients
N. Lim¹, T. Leventhal¹, M. Thomson¹, M. Hassan¹, J. Thompson¹, S. Chinnakotla², V. Kirchner², T. Pruett², R. Kandaswamy², V. Humphreville², A. Adams², J. Lake¹
¹Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, ²Division of Transplantation, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
*Purpose: More patients are presenting for liver transplant (LT) evaluation for alcohol-related liver disease (ALD). Detection of ETOH use has significant implications for patients undergoing…
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…

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