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Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Kidney Disease
Exploring the Impact of CKD, Dialysis, and Transplantation on Patients
- 1st Edition - September 20, 2020
- Editors: Daniel Cukor, Scott D. Cohen, Paul L. Kimmel
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 0 8 0 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 0 8 1 - 6
Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Kidney Disease: Exploring the Impact of CKD, Dialysis, and Transplantation on Patients provides an overview of the emotional and psycho… Read more
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Request a sales quotePsychosocial Aspects of Chronic Kidney Disease: Exploring the Impact of CKD, Dialysis, and Transplantation on Patients provides an overview of the emotional and psychological challenges faced by people with renal disease. This book outlines the epidemiology and treatment of the psychosocial factors affecting them. The sections in the book cover psychiatric illness in the earlier and middle stages of chronic kidney disease, end-stage renal disease treated with dialysis, and renal transplantation. The book concludes with a section on special considerations, delving into topics such as treating children and adolescents, quality of life, caregiver burden, challenges in psychosocial research in kidney disease, and future directions for intervention.
- Includes chapters that are written by a leading group of international researchers
- Emphasizes practical approaches to patient care and treatment issues
- Explores psychosocial issues related to hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
- Discusses available treatment for anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, pain, nonadherence, cognitive dysfunction, palliative care, and other psychosocial concerns
health psychologists and clinical psychologists working with chronic kidney disease patients, renal social workers, renal dieticians, and renal nurses; secondary audience would include academic researchers and general practitioners
- No. of pages: 576
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 20, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128170809
- eBook ISBN: 9780128170816
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Daniel Cukor
Dr. Cukor is currently the Director of Behavioral Health at The Rogosin Institute in New York City, one of the premier centers for the study and management of kidney disease in the country. He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Health Psychology from Ferkauf Graduate School (2002) and has post graduate training in cognitive behavioral interventions. The bulk of his research has focused on psychosocial issues in patients with end stage renal disease. He has received grant support for his research from a variety of local and federal funding sources. His current interests are focused on depression, anxiety, sleep difficulty, pain, caregiver burden, and patient activation in patients with chronic kidney disease.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Behavioral Health, The Rogosin Institute, New York, NY, USASC
Scott D. Cohen
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, George Washington University. Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Cohen’s clinical interests include the treatment of glomerulonephritis, chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, hypertension, renal transplantation, and dialysis. His research interests include novel therapeutic options for the treatment of glomerulonephritis, and outcomes research in chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury.
Affiliations and expertise
Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, George Washington University, Washington DC, United StatesPK
Paul L. Kimmel
Paul L. Kimmel, MD, MACP, FRCP, FASN, was educated at Yale College and the New York University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and Nephrology fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and the George Washington University, where he attained the rank of professor. From 2001 to 2006, Dr. Kimmel served as Director of the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension at George Washington University. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Director of Education of the American Society of Nephrology. Dr. Kimmel currently is Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University in Washington, DC. His interests include psychosocial adaptation to chronic renal disease, sleep disorders in patients with kidney disease, zinc metabolism in renal diseases, HIV associated kidney diseases, the clinical genetics of common kidney disease, and the interrelationships between acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease.
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Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United StatesRead Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Kidney Disease on ScienceDirect