Do pre-transplant cultural factors predict health-related quality of life after kidney transplantation?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Post-transplant health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is associated with health outcomes for kidney transplant (KT) recipients. However, pretransplant predictors of improvements in post-transplant HRQOL remain incompletely understood. Namely, important pretransplant cultural factors, such as experience of discrimination, perceived racism in healthcare, or mistrust of the healthcare system, have not been examined as potential HRQOL predictors. Also, few have examined predictors of decline in HRQOL post-transplant.

Methods

Using data from a prospective cohort study, we examined HRQOL change pre- to post-transplant, and novel cultural predictors of the change. We measured physical, mental, and kidney-specific HRQOL as outcomes, and used cultural factors as predictor

SUBMITTER: Loor JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11249207 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature