A new bilingual website sensitive to Hispanic/Latino cultural needs increased those individuals’ knowledge about living kidney donation and transplantation beyond education provided by transplant hospitals, reports a new study from Northwestern Medicine and the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois.
Informate.org was launched to help Hispanics/Latinos with kidney failure and their families learn about the options, risks and benefits of living and deceased donor kidney transplants and make informed decisions about what is best for them. The website was developed to address the apparent lack of information about living kidney donation among Hispanics/Latinos.
“Many Hispanics do not pursue living donation because they don’t know it’s a possibility,” said lead author Elisa Gordon, associate professor of surgery at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “We created Infórmate.org to help Hispanic/Latino patients and their families learn what their options are.”
The site also debunks any misinformation people might have and explains that living donors can have children, exercise, work and have a normal sex life after donating a kidney. READ MORE AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY WEBSITE
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