A patient-centred educational intervention to improve the choice of living kidney donation among renal transplant recipients: a randomised controlled trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: End stage renal disease/living kidney donation; Urological and Genital Diseases; End stage renal disease

• Registration Number: ISRCTN04852451
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Calgary (Canada)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2007-05-22
• Study Completion: 2009-06-01
• Last Update Posted: 4 October 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 230

Inclusion Criteria

Patients who are potentially eligible for a kidney transplant, including:
1. New referrals to the transplant clinic
2. Patients who are in the process of getting a transplant workup
3. Those who are active on the transplant waiting list

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients less than 18 years of age
2. Patients who are not fluent in the English language
3. Patients with impaired cognitive function
4. Patients who are not eligible to continue with the transplant workup process
5. Patients who have already identified a living donor

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The intent to choose living donation as measured by a phone call to the living donor program by a donor on behalf of a participant; this will be measured at three months.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
An improvement in knowledge and attitudes towards living donation as measured by a change in questionnaire score from baseline; this will be measured at six weeks.