Does Whom Patients Sit Next to during Hemodialysis Affect Whether They Request a Living Donation?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The seating arrangement of in-center hemodialysis is conducive to patients forming a relationship and a social network. We examined how seating in the in-center hemodialysis clinic affected patients forming relationships, whether patients formed relationships with others who have similar transplant behaviors (homophily), and whether these relationships influenced patients (social contagion) to request a living donation from family and friends outside of the clinic.

Methods

In this 30-month, prospective cohort study, we observed the relationships of 46 patients on hemodialysis in a hemodialysis clinic. Repeated participant surveys assessed in-center transplant discussions and living-donor requests. A separable temporal exponential random graph model estimated how s

SUBMITTER: Gillespie A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8785989 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature