ArticlePatient preference and adherence2011
Concurrent validity of kidney transplant questionnaire in US renal transplant recipients.
Article in Patient preference and adherence, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01739803 (Behavioral Contract Intervention to Improve Adherence Among Renal Transplant Recipients), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Behavioral Contract Intervention to Improve Adherence Among Renal Transplant Recipients
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- The Quality of Life in Kidney Transplant Recipients and Its Relation With the Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Kidney Transplant Questionnaire 25 to Greek.World journal of transplantation · 2024Article
- Outcomes after kidney transplantation, let's focus on the patients' perspectives.Clinical kidney journal · 2021Review
- Fatigue in Kidney Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Quality of Life and Health Status Among Patients Receiving Renal Replacement Therapy in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies.International journal of nephrology and renovascular disease · 2021Article
- The validity of spatiotemporal gait analysis using dual laser range sensors: a cross-sectional study.Archives of physiotherapy · 2019Article
- Patient-Reported Outcomes in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Kidney Transplant-Part 1.Frontiers in medicine · 2017Review
- Validation of the psychometrics properties of a French quality of life questionnaire among a cohort of renal transplant recipients less than one year.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2016Article
- Pilot feasibility research of Chinese version of kidney transplant questionnaire in recipients of living donor kidney transplantation.International journal of clinical and experimental medicine · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundValid instrumentation in the assessment of health-related quality of life (HQoL) in renal transplant recipients is critical to identifying particular nuances and determinants of HQoL in this population. Therefore, the validity of disease-specific instruments to measure HQoL in renal transplant recipients, such as the Kidney Transplant Questionnaire (KTQ), needs further investigation. The objective of this study was to assess the concurrent validity of the KTQ in adult US renal transplant recipients using the well established SF-12 Health Survey version 2 (SF-12v2) as the comparison instrument.
methodsOne hundred and fourteen renal transplant recipients met the following inclusion criteria for this study, ie, were at least 21 years of age, more than two years post-transplant, and receiving immunosuppressant therapy. Subjects were asked to complete a series of HQoL instruments, ie, the KTQ and the SF-12v2 (physical component summary [PCS-12] and mental component summary [MCS-12]). Descriptive statistics were calculated, and correlational analyses were conducted to examine the concurrent validity of the HQoL instruments.
resultsAmong 100 participants (87.7% response rate), the majority of participants were male (52%), had deceased donor transplants (63%), and received Medicare benefits (84%). PCS-12 was positively correlated with three of five KTQ subscales (P < 0.05), ie, KTQ-physical (r = 0.43), KTQ-fatigue (r = 0.42), and KTQ-uncertainty/fear (r = 0.2). MCS-12 was positively correlated with all KTQ subscales (P < 0.01), ie, KTQ-physical (r = 0.26), KTQ-fatigue (r = 0.48), KTQ-uncertainty/fear (r = 0.33), KTQ-emotional (r = 0.47), and KTQ-appearance (r = 0.28).
conclusionThe findings support the concurrent validity of the KTQ in US renal transplant recipients. Future studies should continue exploring the validity of the KTQ, as well as its practical and research utility in HQoL measurement in the renal transplant population.
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