Educational information for patients and caregivers in paediatric kidney transplant

The aim is to offer, via the use of a manual, information to the parents and kidney-transplanted children, which offers hope to all with advice and explanation of procedures, and in this way, to better inform the recipients. The guide offers information to kidney-transplanted children and their caregivers, with clear instructions, simple vocabularies and attractive drawings or illustrations. With this guide, children and youngsters learn measurements of self-care, know the details of diet, recognize their physical limits and are informed about their necessary medication in order that the medication can be taken with minimal side effects. The parents find information to take care of a child who is transplanted and so has a second opportunity to enjoy life. This permits high hopes that self-confidence and self-esteem will be built up from advice and better information about how to get the best treatment. The quality of life recovered by the children and family is the best reward that can be given to the anonymous donors, who through the transplant, offer a possible reality for those patients who benefit from the chance to live again.