Increasing Kidney Transplant Among Blacks on the Transplant Waiting List

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Conditions studied: Chronic Kidney Disease, End-Stage Renal Disease

In brief

For most patients with kidney failure, living donor kidney transplant (LDKT) is their best treatment option. Unfortunately, Blacks (vs. non-Blacks) are more likely to have kidney failure but less likely to receive LDKTs. In this study, the investigators will test an intervention designed to address this disparity, by performing a parallel group, two-arm randomized clinical trial among 500 Black kidney transplant candidates. The main objective of this study is to test an educational and behavioral intervention that is designed to increase receipt of LDKT among transplant candidates (persons active on the deceased donor kidney transplant waiting list) who are Black. Our overall hypothesis is that a multi-component intervention administered to Black transplant candidates will increase both readiness to pursue LDKT and actual receipt of LDKTs. The investigators will randomly assign kidney transplant candidates on the kidney transplant waiting list to either: (1) a control group that will receive Usual Care, or (2) an Intervention group that will receive a group-based intervention, as well as monthly mailings and a follow-up phone call by a transplant educator.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02319447

Run by

St. Barnabas Medical Center

People needed

223

Starts

2014-12-01

Expected to finish

2018-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-12-27

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• self-reported as Black or African-American
• 21 years of age or older
• active on kidney transplant waiting list at Saint Barnabas Medical Center

You may not qualify if…

• limited English proficiency
• unable or unwilling to provide informed consent
• unable to complete in-person and telephone questionnaires (including hearing impairment or low vision)
• lack a working telephone
• live 150 miles or greater from transplant center
• enrolled in prior randomized intervention trial, NCT01261910, at our center
• currently already scheduled to receive a live donor kidney transplant
• active on the simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant waiting list

Where it is running

• Saint Barnabas Medical Center — Livingston, New Jersey, United States

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