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Transplant Social Worker Support for Live Kidney Donation in African Americans

NCT02369354 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2023-07-05

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Summary

Talking About Live Kidney Donation Support (TALKS) will study the effectiveness of education, behavior, and financial support interventions to improve consideration of live kidney transplantation/live kidney donation among African Americans on the deceased kidney waiting list. We hypothesize that interventions to help potential kidney transplant recipients and their potential donors overcome barriers to live donor kidney transplant (including family discussions, financial, or logistical barriers) could improve potential recipients' receipt of live kidney transplants. The main outcomes of TALKS will include whether potential recipients (1) have potential live donors call into the transplant center on their behalf; (2) have potential donors evaluated for transplant; or (3) receive a live donor kidney transplant.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

TALKS Social Worker Intervention

TALKS includes a video and book that describe patient and family experiences with talking about and considering live kidney transplantation. TALKS also includes a social worker meeting. Potential recipients meet with a transplant social worker for up to 60 minutes to identify potential barriers to considering or pursuing live donor kidney transplantation. They also are invited to have a second meeting with family and/or friends with the social worker for up to 60 minutes.

OTHER

Financial Assistance Intervention

The financial assistance intervention offers potential donors the ability to draw from a "bank" of $2100 to reimburse their costs related to being evaluated for live kidney donation or for donating a kidney. Costs include, but are not limited to: child care, travel, time off work, and other out of pocket expenses related to being evaluated to become a live kidney donor or to donating.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

    collaborator NIH

  • Duke University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Leigh E Boulware, MD, MPH · Duke University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-09-30
Primary Completion
2019-07-02
Completion
2019-07-02

Countries

  • United States

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