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Table 6 Predictors for employment during dialysis and post-transplant

From: Employment of patients with kidney failure treated with dialysis or kidney transplantation—a systematic review and meta-analysis

 

No of Studies

Participants

Heterogeneity

Meta-analysis

Chi2

p

I2 (%)

OR

(95% CI)

Dialysis

 Diabetes (non-diabetic/diabetic)

7

479

6.34

0.39

5%

1.68

(1.46, 1.93)

 Education (>high school/<=high school)

6

1704

10.0

0.08

50%

2.57

(2.06, 3.21)

 Dialysis modality (PD/HD)

6

6081

19.3

0.002

74%

2.24

(2.01, 2.51)

 Gender (male/female)

6

215

128

< 0.001

96%

4.09

(3.59, 4.67)

Post transplant

 Gender (male/female)

12

253

13.1

0.29

16%

1.41

(1.19, 1.67)

 Education (>high school/<=high school)

10

2139

11.9

0.22

24%

2.25

(1.85, 2.75)

 Kidney donor (living donor /deceased donor)

10

2597

8.7

0.47

0%

2.74

(2.30, 3.27)

 Pretransplant employed (employed/unemployed)

8

74,408

26.8

< 0.001

74%

13.63

(13.1, 14.2)

 Diabetes (non-diabetic/diabetic)

8

3114

15.2

0.03

54%

1.62

(1.36, 1.92)

 Ethnicity (white/other than white)

5

944

5.1

0.28

21%

1.95

(1.44, 2.64)

 Age (< 50 yr/> = 50 yr)

5

1566

6.5

0.17

38%

2.29

(1.85, 2.84)

 Dialysis modality (PD/HD)

4

749

2.7

0.45

0%

1.55

(1.02, 2.35)

 Waiting time (< 2 yr/> = 2 yr)

4

1226

0.2

0.98

0%

1.82

(1.37, 2.42)

 Depression (no depression/depression)

3

1084

2.2

0.33

9%

2.24

(1.53, 3.27)

 Dialysis duration (< 2 yr/> = 2 yr)

2

477

3.2

0.08

68%

3.82

(2.51, 5.83)