title: Investigation of features of patients in renal transplantation waiting list: Who wants much more of what for renal transplantation?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Renal transplant is the best form of treatment for most patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), because that therapy improves quality of life, prolongs survival, and is cost-effective. The objective of the study being reported was to compare the sociodemographic characteristics and registration status for renal transplantation of ESRD patients in Turkey who were registered for transplant or not.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study was conducted between June and September 2012 on patients of several Dialysis Centers. They all were informed in a one on one interview about the risks and benefits of renal transplants; they were also asked to fill out the questionnaires given to them. The study questionnaire was designed with the help of already published reports to include among others the patient's age, sex, waiting time and educational status.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Patients who had been registered in the cadaver kidney waiting list were aged 43.85±13.48 in the average, with a balanced sex ratio, average dialysis duration 57.30±51.46 months. Of these patients 45 had finished high school, 87 lived in rural areas and 67 had an income equivalent to expenses.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There was a significant difference among the groups depending on the patients' residence in an urban or rural environment. Such a difference might be following the greater ease of obtaining relevant information in the urban areas.
authors.affiliation: Isin Cantekin, Department of Medical Nursing, Health Sciences Faculty, Meliksah University, Kayseri, Turkey.
authors.forename: Isin
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cantekin
authors.affiliation: Husniye Ferah, Department of Nephrology Dialysis Center, Ataturk University Medical School, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: Husniye
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ferah
authors.affiliation: Mustafa Keles, Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Keles
authors.affiliation: Erim Gulcan, Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey.
authors.forename: Erim
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gulcan
keywords: End-stage renal disease; Kidney transplantation; Sociodemographic characteristics