Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Transitioning to Adult Care

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Heart Transplantation

In brief

The purpose of this pilot trial, Transitioning to Adult Care (TRANSIT), is to develop and test an intervention (i.e., a standardized, tailored transition program focused on enhancing adherence) to improve outcomes for emerging adults who underwent heart transplantation as children and transfer to adult care.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02090257

Run by

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

People needed

88

Starts

2014-03-01

Expected to finish

2017-05-31

Last updated by the study team

2017-07-26

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Have received a heart transplant at a children's hospital and are ready to transition, as determined by the pediatric heart transplant cardiologist, to the adult heart transplant center with whom a collaborative relationship has been established;
• 18 years or older;
• Able to speak, read at a fifth grade level or above, and write English;
• Physically able to participate.

You may not qualify if…

• History of psychiatric hospitalization within the last 3 months, assessed on a case-by-case basis with exclusion only if patients could not potentially benefit from the intervention.

Where it is running

• Loma Linda University — Loma Linda, California, United States
• Universtiy of Colorado Denver/Children Colorado — Aurora, Colorado, United States
• Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Northwestern Memorial Hospital — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Columbia University — New York, New York, United States
• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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