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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
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Daniel Cukor, Scott D. Cohen, Paul L. Kimmel
  • Language: English

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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Description

Psychosocial 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.

Key features

  • 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

Readership

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

Table of contents

Section I: Introduction

1. Introduction
Norman B. Levy

2. Coping With Chronic Illness: The Challenge of Patients with Renal Disease
Daniel Cukor, Scott D. Cohen and Paul L. Kimmel

3. The Landscape of Psychiatric Illness in CKD and ESRD
Alice Won and Paul L. Kimmel

4. Social Determinants of Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in CKD and ESRD
Jenna M. Norton

Section II: Chronic Renal Disease

5. Psychological Challenges and Psychiatric Illness in Earlier Stages of CKD
L. Parker Gregg and S. Susan Hedayati

6. Physical Activity for Patients with CKD
Capri G. Foy

Section III: Patients with ESRD Treated with Dialysis

7. Depression in Patients with CKD and ESRD
David K. Quinn and Daniel Cukor

8. Anxiety in Patients with CKD and ESRD
Paul L. Kimmel, Scott D. Cohen and Daniel Cukor

9. Sleep Disorders in Patients with CKD and ESRD
Maria-Eleni Roumelioti, Christos P. Argyropoulos and Mark L. Unruh

10. Pain and Symptom Burden in Patients with CKD and ESRD
Manisha Jhamb and Jennifer Steel

11. Cognitive Functioning in Patients with CKD and ESRD
Konstadina Griva and Stanton P. Newman

12. Sexual Function in Patients with CKD and ESRD
Connie J. Wang, James B. Wetmore and Kirsten L. Johansen

13. Social Support in Patients with CKD and ESRD
Saad Alshihiri and Scott D. Cohen

14. Adherence and Illness Perceptions in Patients with CKD and ESRD
Joseph Chilcot, John Weinman and Ken Farrington

15. Psychiatric Challenges in Patients Treated with Peritoneal Dialysis
Susie Q. Lew and Patricia Centron

16. Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Patients with ESRD
Nathaniel Berman and Elly Varma

Section IV: Renal Transplantation

17. Psychosocial Evaluation in Kidney Transplantation
Kristy L. Engel and Kristin K. Kuntz

18. Psychiatric Challenges and Management in Kidney Transplantation
Matthew Christian Cornelius

19. Adherence Management in Transplantation
Sabina M. DeGeest, Janette Ribaut, Kris Denhaerynck and Fabienne Dobbels

Section V: Special Considerations

20. Pediatric and Adolescent Patients with CKD and ESRD
Kaushalendra Amatya, Marva M. Moxey-Mims and Stephen R. Hooper

21. Caregivers of People with Kidney Disease Melissa
S. Nataatmadja and Nicholas A. Gray

22. Measuring and Improving Quality of Life
C. Graham Ford, Mark L. Unruh and Larissa Myaskovsky

23. Challenges in Psychosocial Research in Renal Populations
Rajnish Mehrotra and Daniel Cukor

24. Future Directions for Psychiatric Intervention: Novel Models of Service Delivery
Daniel Cukor and Scott D. Cohen

Review quotes

"…This book edited by Cukor, Cohen and Kimmel provides a wealth of information to health care providers who are trying to develop a patient centered approach to caring for individuals with kidney disease—understanding and addressing symptom management, quality of life issues, and research approaches."—Fredric O. Finkelstein MD, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT

"No other book has covered the multi-layered topics of psycho-nephrology so extensively as this ground breaking textbook...This book should be on the bookshelves of every facility around the world dedicated to CKD patients and their families."—Satoshi Funakoshi, MD, PhD, President, Nagasaki Kidney Center, Nagasaki, Japan

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 20, 2020
  • Language: English

About the editors

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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, USA

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Scott D. Cohen

Scott D. Cohen, MD, MPH, FASN, is Division Chief of Nephrology and Fellowship Program Director at Cleveland Clinic Florida. He earned a B.S. with honors from the University of Miami (1997), an MD from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (2001), and an MPH from George Washington University (2008). His training includes Internal Medicine residency at Duke University Medical Center (2001–2004), Nephrology fellowship at GWU (2005–2008), and Glomerular Diseases fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center (2008–2009). He has held faculty positions at GWU and Columbia, and joined Cleveland Clinic Florida in 2023. Board-certified in internal medicine and nephrology; ACLS/BLS certified; Fellow, American Society of Nephrology. His research centers on glomerular diseases, CKD, and dialysis outcomes, supported by NIH/NIDDK and NKF grants. He is a prolific educator, reviewer, and author.
Affiliations and expertise
Cleveland Clinic Weston

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Paul L. Kimmel

Dr. Paul L. Kimmel, MD, MPH, FASN, is a physician-scientist renowned for leadership in nephrology and renal genetics. He served as Director of Translational Genetics and the Acute Kidney Injury Program at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (Division of Kidney, Urologic and Hematologic Diseases, NIH). He is currently Emeritus Clinical Professor of Medicine at George Washington University, where he directs The Renal Diseases and Hypertension Division. His training includes Yale College (AB), New York University School of Medicine (MD), internal medicine residency at Bellevue Hospital Center, and nephrology fellowships at GWU and Columbia. Research interests encompass glomerular diseases, APOL1 genetics, acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, and dialysis outcomes, with major NIH/NIDDK and NKF funding, including the APOLLO and FIND studies. A prolific educator and mentor, he has served on numerous advisory committees and published extensively on kidney biology, disease, and patient-centered nephrology care.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States

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