title: Measuring kidney patients' motivation to pursue living donor kidney transplant: development of stage of change, decisional balance and self-efficacy measures.
abstract: While educational interventions to increase patient motivation to pursue living donor kidney transplant have shown success in increasing living donor kidney transplant rates, there are no validated, theoretically consistent measures of Stage of Change, a measure of readiness to pursue living donor kidney transplant; Decisional Balance, a weighted assessment of living donor kidney transplant's advantages/disadvantages; and Self-Efficacy, a measure of belief that patients can pursue living donor kidney transplant in difficult circumstances. This study developed and validated measures of these three constructs. In two independent samples of kidney patients (N 1 = 279 and N 2 = 204), results showed good psychometric properties and support for their use in the assessment of living donor kidney transplant interventions.
authors.affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, USA awaterma3256@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Amy D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Waterman
authors.affiliation: University of Rhode Island, USA.
authors.forename: Mark L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Robbins
authors.affiliation: University of Rhode Island, USA.
authors.forename: Andrea L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Paiva
authors.affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Peipert
authors.affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: LaShara A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: Shelley S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Hyland
authors.affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: Emily A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Schenk
authors.affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: Kari A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Baldwin
authors.affiliation: University of Rhode Island, USA.
authors.forename: Nicole R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Amoyal
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000523:psychology*; D019520:Living Donors / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000523:psychology*; D020377:Self Efficacy
keywords: Self-Efficacy; health behavior; health education; stages of change; validation