Table 6.
Predictors for employment during dialysis and post-transplant
| No of Studies | Participants | Heterogeneity | Meta-analysis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chi2 | p | I2 (%) | OR | (95% CI) | |||
| Dialysis | |||||||
| Diabetes (non-diabetic/diabetic) | 7 | 479 | 6.34 | 0.39 | 5% | 1.68 | (1.46, 1.93) |
| Education (>high school/<=high school) | 6 | 1704 | 10.0 | 0.08 | 50% | 2.57 | (2.06, 3.21) |
| Dialysis modality (PD/HD) | 6 | 6081 | 19.3 | 0.002 | 74% | 2.24 | (2.01, 2.51) |
| Gender (male/female) | 6 | 215 | 128 | < 0.001 | 96% | 4.09 | (3.59, 4.67) |
| Post transplant | |||||||
| Gender (male/female) | 12 | 253 | 13.1 | 0.29 | 16% | 1.41 | (1.19, 1.67) |
| Education (>high school/<=high school) | 10 | 2139 | 11.9 | 0.22 | 24% | 2.25 | (1.85, 2.75) |
| Kidney donor (living donor /deceased donor) | 10 | 2597 | 8.7 | 0.47 | 0% | 2.74 | (2.30, 3.27) |
| Pretransplant employed (employed/unemployed) | 8 | 74,408 | 26.8 | < 0.001 | 74% | 13.63 | (13.1, 14.2) |
| Diabetes (non-diabetic/diabetic) | 8 | 3114 | 15.2 | 0.03 | 54% | 1.62 | (1.36, 1.92) |
| Ethnicity (white/other than white) | 5 | 944 | 5.1 | 0.28 | 21% | 1.95 | (1.44, 2.64) |
| Age (< 50 yr/> = 50 yr) | 5 | 1566 | 6.5 | 0.17 | 38% | 2.29 | (1.85, 2.84) |
| Dialysis modality (PD/HD) | 4 | 749 | 2.7 | 0.45 | 0% | 1.55 | (1.02, 2.35) |
| Waiting time (< 2 yr/> = 2 yr) | 4 | 1226 | 0.2 | 0.98 | 0% | 1.82 | (1.37, 2.42) |
| Depression (no depression/depression) | 3 | 1084 | 2.2 | 0.33 | 9% | 2.24 | (1.53, 3.27) |
| Dialysis duration (< 2 yr/> = 2 yr) | 2 | 477 | 3.2 | 0.08 | 68% | 3.82 | (2.51, 5.83) |