The Use of the Social Networking to Promote Educational and Consultative Actions Among Kidney Transplanted Adolescents.

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Education; Kidney Transplantation
• Interventions: Behavioral: Facebook group

• Registration Number: NCT03214965
• Lead Sponsor: Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul

Brief Summary

This study is designed to compare the knowledge, satisfaction and self-esteem of kidney transplanted adolescents measured through questionnaires between two groups: patients undergoing conventional treatment with no other intervention versus patients undergoing conventional treatment and receiving additional educational and consultative actions using a closed facebook group.

Detailed Description

Based on literature, there are strong evidences that the use of social media improves the outcomes of chronic treatments. Currently, there is no study using social media as an education tool in kidney transplant patients in Brazil. This study is designed to answer the question: "Does the use of a popular social media such as facebook improves the knowledge, satisfaction and self-steem levels among kidney transplant adolescents when compared with their peers ?" This is a non-blinded randomized clinical trial. Patients will be randomly included into one of the two groups: the control group who will not receive any intervention or the facebook group (who will receive additional educational and consultative support through a closed facebook group) After three months, knowledge level, satisfaction level and self-esteem will be assessed by specific designed questionnaires and by the application of the Rosenberg's self-esteem scale. The study will have a sample of 122 subjects, equally divided (61 participants in each group). Collected data will be compared using the chi square test.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-01
• Primary Completion: 2016-03
• Study Completion: 2016-08
• Study First Submitted: 2016-09-19
• Status Verified: 2017-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-07-09
• Study First Posted: 2017-07-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-07-18
• Last Update Posted: 2017-07-21

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 128

Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Facebook group	Facebook group	Patients of the kidney transplantation group randomly assigned to be part of a closed facebook group.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Knowledge about the disease	3 months	Knowledge about the disease and associated conditions measured by a specific designed questionnaire.
Satisfaction about the treatment	3 months	Satisfaction with the interdisciplinary team obtained by a specific designed questionnaire
Self-esteem	3 months	Assessment of the participant's self-esteem through the application of the "Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale"

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hospital da Criança Santo Antônio da Santa Casa de Misericórdia; 🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil