Knowledge and Attitude of Dialysis Center Medical Staff Towards Living Kidney Donation

Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Kidney Transplant

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05797337

WLNZ/NoZ/3/2023

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this cross-sectional study is to learn about the level of knowledge and attitudes of medical staff working in dialysis centers about living kidney donations. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• What is the level of knowledge of dialysis center medical staff regarding living kidney transplantations?
• How much time does the staff have for educating the patients about living kidney donations? Participants will be asked to answer a self-report questionnaire along with two standardized tools.

Enrollment: 500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Voluntary consent to participate in the study.
• Communicative knowledge of the Polish language.
• Each potential participant will receive comprehensive information about the purpose and course of the study before participating in the study and will consent to the study.
• Dialysis station employee: doctor, nurse.

Exclusion criteria

• no consent
• no communicative knowledge of the Polish language
• not working in dialysis center currently