Trends in African Americans' Attitudes and Behaviors About Living Donor Kidney Transplantation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to marginal efforts to increase living donor kidney transplantation, it is unclear whether interventions to improve African Americans' interest and pursuit of living donation should be tailored to address patients' exposure to or familiarity with dialysis or transplant settings.

Design, setting, and participants

We conducted a cross-sectional secondary analysis of baseline data from 3 separate randomized clinical trials among African Americans with varying degrees of experience with dialysis or transplantation (predialysis, on dialysis but not on transplant list, and on transplant wait-list) settings.

Methods

Interest in living donation was described using a 0 to 10 scale and pursuit of living donor kidney transplantation by achievement of at least 1 pu

SUBMITTER: Vilme H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6558658 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature