title: Predictors of employment after successful kidney transplantation - a population-based study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Kidney transplantation is currently the treatment of choice for end-stage renal disease. As the successful transplantation improves the physical and mental quality of life, it is expected that the transplant recipient should play a productive role in the society. The present study evaluates the occurrence and predictors of employment after kidney transplantation.
  
  
  METHODS
  Population-based cross-sectional study in which 272 adult kidney recipients assisted in a Brazilian Southern state were evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  At the moment of the interview, 29% of the patients were employed. After analysis with logistic regression, the predictors of employment were male sex (OR 4.04; 95% CI 1.99-8.23), pre-transplant employment for non-diabetic (OR 4.35; 95% CI 3.79-4.99), diabetes for individuals who worked while on dialysis (OR 0.06; 95% CI 0.008-0.5), high educational level for individuals with mental quality of life scores above the 25th percentile (OR 3.06; 95% CI 2.98-3.14 for 50th percentile of mental quality of life). The Hosmer-Lemeshow test was of 3.33 (p = 0.91).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The participation of the kidney transplant recipients with functioning graft into the work force in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul is low, being predicted mainly by sociodemographic factors. It was not detected any influence of patient perception of his/her physical conditions or other clinical variables, except for the presence of diabetes.
authors: Postgraduation Program in Nephrology, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil. mbohlke@conesul.com.br
authors: Maristela
authors: M
authors: Bohlke
authors: Stela Scaglioni
authors: SS
authors: Marini
authors: Rafael Hissé
authors: RH
authors: Gomes
authors: Lisoneide
authors: L
authors: Terhorst
authors: Marcos
authors: M
authors: Rocha
authors: Carlos Eduardo
authors: CE
authors: Poli de Figueiredo
authors: Ricardo
authors: R
authors: Sesso
authors: Maria Claudia
authors: MC
authors: Irigoyen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires