Cross-sectional survey reveals widespread assessment and intervention practices among transplant social workers, indicating active risk mitigation prior to transplantation.
Key Points
To describe the social support assessment practices and risk-mitigation interventions performed by transplant social workers during the pretransplant evaluation process.
Conducted a cross-sectional survey of members within the Society for Transplant Social Workers (N = 141).
Assessed domains of social support evaluation, institutional requirements, and specific interventions applied across all organ transplant groups and U.S. Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network regions.
Standardized assessment tools were utilized by 70.9% (n = 100/141) of transplant social workers, with all participants evaluating multiple assessment domains.
All respondents (100%) reported implementing targeted interventions to mobilize social support and mitigate psychosocial risks during pretransplant evaluation.