ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Pediatric Nephrology
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1613963
Analysis of the current status of transition readiness and factors influencing it in adolescent patients with kidney disease
Provisionally accepted
- Department of Pediatrics, Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Command, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China
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Background:To investigate the transition readiness of adolescent kidney disease patients, to understand the status and ability of adolescent kidney disease patients to transition to adult healthcare, and to study the influencing factors, in order to provide a theoretical basis for improving the transition readiness of adolescent kidney disease patients and developing intervention strategies.The sample of this study was obtained from the follow-up data of the pediatric department of the General Hospital of the Eastern Theater of Operations from December 2024 to January 2025, and renal disease patients aged 13-18 years were selected as the study subjects, and the scores of the Chinese version of the Self-Management and Transitional Readiness Questionnaire were used to determine the readiness status of the study subjects, and a binary logistic regression was used to analyze the influencing factors.Results:A total of 242 questionnaires were distributed, and 12 invalid questionnaires were excluded, resulting in the inclusion of 230 samples for analysis. Transitional readiness was at a low level in 123 cases (53.48%) and at a medium-high level in 107 cases (46.52%). The results of binary logistic regression showed that the number of hospitalizations, treatment modalities, place of residence, caregiver's literacy, monthly
Keywords: adolescents, kidney disease, transition readiness, current status, Influencing factors
Received: 18 Apr 2025; Accepted: 26 Aug 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Bai, Lv, Liu, Liu and Jia. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Lili Jia, Department of Pediatrics, Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Command, Nanjing, 210002, Jiangsu Province, China
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