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Measuring and explaining racial and ethnic differences in willingness to donate live kidneys in the United States.
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- Design and approach of the Living Organ Video Educated Donors (LOVED) program to promote living kidney donation in African Americans.Contemporary clinical trials · 2017Trial
- The TALKS study to improve communication, logistical, and financial barriers to live donor kidney transplantation in African Americans: protocol of a randomized clinical trial.BMC nephrology · 2015Trial
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- Testing the Differential Access Hypothesis That Black Kidney Transplant Candidates Perceive Social Network Access to Fewer Potential Living Donors Than White Candidates.Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) · 2023Article
- Implementation of a culturally competentBMJ open · 2023Article
- Older Age is Associated With Lower Utilization of Living Donor Kidney Transplant.Kidney international reports · 2023Article
- Living kidney donation in a developing country.PloS one · 2022Article
- Pre-emptive live donor kidney transplantation-moving barriers to opportunities: An ethical, legal and psychological aspects of organ transplantation view.World journal of transplantation · 2021Review
- Assessment of Barriers to Donation for Potential Black Kidney Donors.Kidney international reports · 2021Article
- Barriers to Accessing Kidney Transplantation Among Populations Marginalized by Race and Ethnicity in Canada: A Scoping Review Part 2-East Asian, South Asian, and African, Caribbean, and Black Canadians.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2021Article
- Race and Mortality in CKD and Dialysis: Findings From the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2020Article
- Racial differences in completion of the living kidney donor evaluation process.Clinical transplantation · 2018Article
- Ethnic Background Is a Potential Barrier to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in Canada: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.Transplantation · 2017Article
- Educating Prospective Kidney Transplant Recipients and Living Donors about Living Donation: Practical and Theoretical Recommendations for Increasing Living Donation Rates.Current transplantation reports · 2016Article
- African American kidney transplant patients' perspectives on challenges in the living donation process.Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundReasons for US racial-ethnic minority ESRD patients' reported difficulties identifying live kidney donors are poorly understood.
methodsWe conducted a national study to develop scales measuring willingness to donate live kidneys among US adults (scores ranged from 0 [not willing] to 10 [extremely willing]), and we tested whether racial-ethnic differences exist in willingness to donate. We also examined whether clinical, sociodemographic, and attitudinal factors mediated potential racial-ethnic differences in willingness.
resultsAmong 845 participants, the majority were extremely willing to donate to relatives (77%) while fewer than half were extremely willing to donate to non-relatives (18%). In multivariable linear regression analyses, willingness to donate varied by race-ethnicity and recipient relationship to the donor. African Americans were less willing to donate to relatives than whites (β: -0.48; 95% CI [Confidence Interval]: -0.94 to -0.17; p = 0.04), but these differences were eliminated after accounting for socioeconomic factors, medical trust, and concerns about burial after death. There were no differences in willingness to donate between Hispanics and whites.
conclusionsAfrican Americans' burial concerns, medical trust, and socioeconomic factors explained differences in their willingness to donate to relatives, suggesting efforts to address these barriers may enhance rates of live kidney donation in this group.
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