Receipt and Sharing of Information to Improve Knowledge About Living Donor Kidney Transplant among Transplant Candidates with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease.
Dinushika Mohottige, Clemontina Davenport, Hui-Jie Lee and 8 others
PMID 35698759WHAT IT FOUND
Patients who reported receiving living-donor kidney information from health professionals or sharing it with family/friends were more likely to have high knowledge; only 33% had received it.
Key findings
01Only 33% of participants had received information about living donor kidney transplantation, while 59% had received information about dialysis.
02Participants who received living donor kidney information from health professionals had higher odds of high knowledge than those who did not receive information (OR 4.01, 95% CI 1.49-12.18).
03Participants who received and shared living donor kidney information had higher odds of high knowledge than those who did not receive information (OR 3.05, 95% CI 1.24-8.08).
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What it does not show
Participants were recruited from nephrology practices in one metropolitan area, so the findings may not apply to other regions. Information receipt was self-reported and was not checked against medical records. The study measured information receipt and knowledge at one time point, so it cannot show that receiving information caused higher knowledge. It did not follow participants to see whether they received living-donor kidney transplants. The data were collected in 2011, and transplant education practices may have changed. The analysis did not adjust for multiple comparisons.
Declared interests
The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest. The article is listed as supported by NIH extramural funding.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that giving patients living-donor kidney information causes higher knowledge or increases transplants. The study measured reported information receipt and knowledge at one time point, and it did not follow participants to see whether they received a living-donor transplant.