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02 March 2021: Original Paper

Kidney Transplant Evaluation and Listing: Development and Preliminary Evaluation of Multimedia Education for Patients

Liise K. Kayler 12ABCDE* , Beth Dolph 1E , Molly Ranahan 2CE , Maria Keller 3CE , Renee Cadzow 4E , Thomas H. Feeley 5CE

DOI: 10.12659/AOT.929839

Ann Transplant 2021; 26:e929839

Table 5 Themes and representative quotes of messages received from the animations about kidney transplant evaluation and listing.

“ It showed you everybody who will help you, that you’ re not by yourself.” “ Use your resources that they give you.” “ Reach out to your social worker if she probably could plug you into whoever you need to talk to or what have you.”
“ When it said bring a family member or friend, definitely because it’ s a lot to process by yourself.” “ They will help you build up your support team.”
“ There’ s, you know, if you got any kinds of questions or any doubt on anything, you know, make sure you reach out, you know, because they will make it a lot smoother.” “ Saving the coordinator number. I think that is most important.” “ They’ ll tell you what you need to do to become active.” “ Any questions go to the coordinator and they will help you get ready.”
“ Make sure you do everything because it’ s a lot of steps, lot a tests you got to take, but um conquer before you, uh, you know, stress test, uh, you know, blood work, all that.” “ You got to make sure you got to do what you’ re supposed to do so you could be placed on that list because there’ s a lot of steps.” “ They’ ll call you and tell you and you try to fix it.”

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Annals of Transplantation eISSN: 2329-0358
Annals of Transplantation eISSN: 2329-0358