Greater community vulnerability is associated with poor living donor navigator program fidelity.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community-level factors contribute to living donor kidney transplantation disparities but may also influence the interventions aimed to mitigate these disparities. The Living Donor Navigator Program was designed to separate the advocacy role from the patient in need of transplantation-friends/family are encouraged to participate as the patients' advocates to identify living donors, though some of the patients participate alone as self-advocates. Self-advocates have a lower living donor kidney transplantation likelihood compared to the patients with an advocate. We sought to evaluate the relationship between the patients' community-level vulnerability and living donor navigator self-advocacy as a surrogate for program fidelity.

Methods

This single-center, retrospec

SUBMITTER: Killian AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9633042 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature