ArticleTransplantation2014
Actual and perceived knowledge of kidney transplantation and the pursuit of a live donor.
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- Designing a Patient-Centered Interdisciplinary Intervention to Promote Equitable Access to Kidney Transplantation across Health Systems: The STEPS Study.Health & social work · 2025Article
- Social network interventions to reduce race disparities in living kidney donation: Design and rationale of the friends and family of kidney transplant patients study (FFKTPS).Clinical transplantation · 2023Article
- Receipt and Sharing of Information to Improve Knowledge About Living Donor Kidney Transplant among Transplant Candidates with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease.Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) · 2022Article
- A scoping review of inequities in access to organ transplant in the United States.International journal for equity in health · 2022Article
- Racial/ethnic and prior willingness disparities in potential living kidney donors' self-assessed responses to advancing American kidney health regulation.BMC public health · 2021Article
- African Americans' discussions about living-donor kidney transplants with family or friends: Who, what, and why not?Clinical transplantation · 2021Article
- Mediators of Socioeconomic Inequity in Living-donor Kidney Transplantation: Results From a UK Multicenter Case-Control Study.Transplantation direct · 2020Article
- Associations of perceived information adequacy and knowledge with pursuit of live donor kidney transplants and living donor inquiries among African American transplant candidates.Clinical transplantation · 2020Article
- Ethnic Background Is a Potential Barrier to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation in Canada: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.Transplantation · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundLive donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) remains underutilized, partly resulting from the challenges many patients face in asking someone to donate. Actual and perceived kidney transplantation (KT) knowledge are potentially modifiable factors that may influence this process. Therefore, we sought to explore the relationships between these constructs and the pursuit of LDKT.
methodsWe conducted a cross-sectional survey of transplant candidates at our center to assess actual KT knowledge (5-point assessment) and perceived KT knowledge (5-point Likert scale, collapsed empirically to 4 points); we also asked candidates if they had previously asked someone to donate. Associations between participant characteristics and having asked someone to donate were quantified using modified Poisson regression.
resultsOf 307 participants, 45.4% were female, 56.4% were non-white race, and 44.6% had previously asked someone to donate. In an adjusted model that included both actual and perceived knowledge, each unit increase in perceived knowledge was associated with 1.21-fold (95% CI: 1.03-1.43, P=0.02) higher likelihood of having asked someone to donate, whereas there was no statistically significant association with actual knowledge (RR=1.08 per unit increase, 95% CI: 0.99-1.18, P=0.10). A conditional forest analysis confirmed the importance of perceived but not actual knowledge in predicting the outcome.
conclusionsOur results suggest that perceived KT knowledge is more important to a patient's pursuit of LDKT than actual knowledge. Educational interventions that seek to increase patient KT knowledge should also focus on increasing confidence about this knowledge.
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