Effectiveness of informational decision aids and a live donor financial assistance program on pursuit of live kidney transplants in African American hemodialysis patients

Table 3 Participants’ median [interquartile range] ratings^a of potential concerns regarding LDKT at baseline and follow-up

	Baseline					6 Months Follow up
	Overall (N = 92)	Usual Care (N = 31)	PREPARED (N = 30)	PREPARED Plus (N = 31)	p	Overall	Usual Care (N = 26)	PREPARED (N = 22)	PREPARED Plus (N = 26)	p
Need for help after surgery	5 [0–8]	5 [0–8]	4 [0–7]	5 [0–9]	0.54	5 [0–8]	4 [0–8]	5 [0–10]	1 [0–5]	0.15
Future ability to have children	0 [0–8]	0 [0–7]	0 [0–8]	0 [0–6]	0.9	0 [0–4]	0 [0–1]	0 [0–5]	0 [0–0]	0.74
Recipients’ money matters	5 [0–10]	7 [4–10]	5 [0–10]	5 [0–10]	0.2	2 [0–9]	0 [0–7]	5 [0–9]	0 [0–8]	0.51
Family members’ money matters	6 [0–10]	10 [5–10]	5 [0–7]	6 [2–10]	< 0.01	4 [0–10]	5 [0–10]	5 [0–10]	0 [0–7]	0.23
Recipient safety during surgery	8 [5–10]	8 [5–10]	8 [5–10]	8 [5–10]	0.74	6 [0–10]	7 [1–10]	6 [0–9]	6 [0–10]	0.66
Family members’ safety during surgery	10 [6–10]	10 [8–10]	8 [5–10]	10 [6–10]	0.45	8 [5–10]	7 [4–10]	10 [6–10]	8 [3–10]	0.59
Family member feeling pressured or guilty	5 [0–10]	8 [0–10]	5 [0–10]	5 [0–9]	0.57	2 [0–9]	5 [0–9]	4 [0–10]	0 [0–5]	0.41
Recipient feeling guilty or indebted	7 [0–10]	6 [0–10]	6 [1–10]	8 [0–10]	0.85	2 [0–10]	6 [0–10]	5 [0–10]	0 [0–5]	0.08
Concern about relationship with family member donor	3 [0–8]	5 [0–10]	1 [0–6]	3 [0–8]	0.52	0 [0–7]	1 [0–9]	0 [0–5]	0 [0–4]	0.27

^aParticipants rated their concerns from 0 (no concern) to 10 (extremely concerned); In GEE analyses. Individuals’ concerns about LDKT did not statistically significantly change during study follow-up, and there were no statistically significant differences in concerns among study groups

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