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Articles tagged "Psychosocial"

  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Challenges and Stressors of COVID-19 Kidney and Transplant Patients: A Mixed Methods Study

    Y. A. Iraheta1, A. L. Murillo2, E. H. Wood1, S. M. Advani3, R. Pines4, A. D. Waterman1

    1UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2Terasaki Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 3National Human Genome Research Institute (NIH), Bethesda, MD, 4Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA

    *Purpose: To assess the unique needs of at-risk kidney and transplant patients and their caregivers during COVID-19, we established a telephone Listening Center enabling them…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Improving Eligibility of Renal Transplants in the Elderly

    L. B. Moraitis, J. Rogers, A. Farney, A. Reeves-Daniel, G. Orlando, W. Doares, S. Kaczmorski, A. Mena-Gutierrez, C. Jay, R. Stratta

    Abdominal Organ Transplant, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, NC

    *Purpose: In the recent past, older age was contraindication to kidney transplantation (KT). New kidney allocation schemes with use of longevity matching, initiation of frailty…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Growing Up During the Pandemic: A New Look for Transitioning to Adult Transplant Care

    M. M. Chandran, E. Blanchette, A. Sikora, M. Bisek, E. S. Christofferson, M. Bock

    Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO

    *Purpose: Adolescent and young adult (AYA) recipients of solid organ transplants (SOT) are confronted with a unique set of life stressors that may negatively impact…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Early Transplant Education Increases CKD 3-5 Patients’ Knowledge and Informed Decision-Making About Chronic Kidney Disease and Living Donor Kidney Transplant

    A. D. Waterman1, S. H. Kawakita2, B. Dub3, Y. A. Iraheta1, A. L. Murillo2, T. Menser4, B. Mittman3

    1UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 2Terasaki Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 3Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente, Pasadena, CA, 4The Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, CA

    *Purpose: Early education about chronic kidney disease (CKD) and living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) outside of transplant centers is inconsistent, with patients in CKD 3…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Identifying Barriers to Transition Readiness in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Patients

    K. Amatya, S. Yuhas-Schiltz, C. Petyak, A. Moudgil

    Nephrology, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

    *Purpose: Inadequate readiness for transition from pediatric to adult care is associated with loss of transplant, initiation of or return to dialysis, and other negative…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Food Insecurity and Impact on Transplant Outcomes in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients

    A. Moin, P. Verghese, R. Engen, D. Matossian

    Pediatric Nephrology, Lurie Children's Hospital, chicago, IL

    *Purpose: Food insecurity (FI), defined as inconsistent access to food or worry over shortage of food that prevents an active and healthy life, has not…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Addressing a Need in Transplant Clinical Care: Creation of the Organ Transplant Caregiver Toolkit

    H. Bruschwein1, G. Chen2, A. Ortega3, W. Balliet4, T. Coco5, C. Thomas6, B. Hansen5, D. Richardson7, K. Canavan8, C. Burch9, A. Yaldo10, M. Jesse11

    1University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, 2Memorial Hermann Transplant Center, Houston, TX, 3Memorial Transplant Institute, Miami, FL, 4Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 5Mayo Clinic, Pheonix, AZ, 6Banner Transplant Institute, Pheonix, AZ, 7Caregiver, Minburn, IA, 8National Kidney Foundation, New York, NY, 9Stanford Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, CA, 10University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 11Henry Ford Transplant Institute, Detroit, MI

    *Purpose: Lay or informal caregivers are a critical component of pre- and post-operative care in adult organ transplantation and living donation. Caregiving in organ transplantation…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Greater Social Vulnerability is Associated with Self-advocacy in the Living Donor Navigator Program

    A. Carter, A. C. Kale, R. D. Reed, B. A. Shelton, H. Qu, M. C. McLeod, B. J. Orandi, R. M. Cannon, D. Anderson, P. MacLennan, V. Kumar, M. Hanaway, J. E. Locke

    University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital, Birmingham, AL

    *Purpose: The Living Donor Navigator (LDN) program helps transplant candidates identify live donors by pairing them with an advocate - a friend or family member…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    I Would Do Whatever It Took”: Understanding the Motivation, Education and Experiences of Kidney Paired Donation Participants

    R. Pines1, Y. A. Iraheta2, L. Ambriz2, K. A. Dahmani2, E. H. Wood2, M. Cooper3, A. D. Waterman2

    1Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA, 2UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 3Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC

    *Purpose: To improve kidney paired donation (KPD) educational programs, we conducted semi-structured interviews to understand motivations of past recipients and donors to participate in KPD,…
  • 2021 American Transplant Congress

    Mhealth Family Self-Management Intervention for Families of Transplanted Children

    S. M. Lerret1, R. White-Traut2, B. Medoff-Cooper3, S. I. Ahamed4, P. Simpson5, R. Schiffman6

    1Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 2Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 3University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 4Department of Computer Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 5Department of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 6University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

    *Purpose: Nearly 2,000 children undergo solid organ transplant in the US annually. In our previous research with transplant families, parents reported difficulty coping with the…
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