Conferences 1986 - 1991

Leuven, Prague, Heidelberg, Manchester, Vienna, Lille

Topics

Patients

• Psychosocial care of children before ESRD
• RDT in infants
• Neuropsychologic development
• Eating disorders
• Psychological significance of small stature
• Body image after TX
• Drug compliance
• Adolescents' concerns
  - View of the future
  - Sexual problems
• Follow-up studies in young adults having left pediatric care
• Death of child

Family

• Support group for parents
• Risk factors in families: RDT vs. diabetes mellitus
• Parental attitudes to enteral feeding modalities
• Problems of siblings

Care and carers

• Nursing care:
  - Quality improvement programme
  - Nurse counsellor
• Coping with chronic illness in the classroom
• Hospital school
• Transfer to adult unit
• Burdens of care
• Team burn-out

Treatment

• Living donation
  - Promotion of living donation?
  - Psychological risk factors
  - Neglected donor
• "Failure to die" (the inaccurate prediction of death)
• GH-therapy, psychological impact
• Dialysis is easy, it's feeding that is difficult
• Naso gastric feeding
• Recruiting children to clinical trials

Interaction

• Multidisciplinary teamwork
• Teamworking in five pediatric renal units in Europe
• Role of psychosocial team in the medical management
• Interaction of disease, care and coping
• Non-adherence: a medical problem or a psychological phenomenon?
• Compliance and relationship

Ethics and politics

• Religious aspects in patient care
• Ethical aspects in treatment of neonates
• Legislation concerning care in different European countries (organ procurement)

Societal problems

• CRF and problematic psychosocial background
• Ethnic minorities
• CRF-service across Europe
• CRF in gypsy families
• CRF in East European patients

Activities

• Sporting activities following TX
• "Holiday camp" and rehabilitation