Increasing Live Donor Kidney Transplantation Through Video-based Education and Mobile Communication
State University of New York at Buffalo
Summary
The study is a 2-arm randomized controlled trial among patients referred for kidney transplant evaluation at a single transplant center to compare the effects of a digital-analog intervention to increase living-donor kidney transplant access (KidneyTIME+) with or without human guide . Following consent and baseline assessment, participants are randomized, stratified by self-reported race, with equal allocation to 2 treatment arms: the KidneyTIME+ intervention with or without human guide.
Description
Over a 3-year period the investigators will conduct a pilot 2-arm parallel randomized trial among patients referred for kidney transplantation at a single transplant center to compare the effects of KidneyTIME+ with or without ongoing human support for KTX access over 6 months of intervention use and follow-up. Participants will be recruited from the Transplant program at Erie County Medical Center, a safety-net hospital in Buffalo, New York. Each week, electronic records will be accessed to identify patients and their carers who present for transplant evaluation at the transplant center for…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * referred to the transplant center for a kidney transplant * aged 18 years and older * speaks English Exclusion Criteria: * Previously exposed to any component of the intervention * Listed for a kidney transplant at another center (multilisted) * Seeking multiorgan transplantation
Interventions
- BehavioralDigital education outreach intervention for kidney transplant access and human guide
Receives (1) donor search materials, (2) electronic resource access messages, (3) practical assistance to use the intervention and empower taking the outreach action and (4) telephonic human guide
- BehavioralDigital education outreach intervention for kidney transplant access only (unguided)
Receives (1) donor search materials, (2) electronic resource access messages, and (3) practical assistance to use the intervention and empower taking the outreach action.
Location
- Erie County Medical Center, 462 Grider StreetBuffalo, New York