Trial reportHealth & social work2012
Feasibility and acceptability of the TALK social worker intervention to improve live kidney transplantation.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions for improving health literacy in people with chronic kidney disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing solid organ donor registration.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Health Disparities in Kidney Transplantation for African Americans.American journal of nephrology · 2017Pooled it
- Transplant social worker and donor financial assistance to increase living donor kidney transplants among African Americans: The TALKS Study, a randomized comparative effectiveness trial.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2021Trial
- Protocol of the KTFT-TALK study to reduce racial disparities in kidney transplant evaluation and living donor kidney transplantation.Contemporary clinical trials · 2017Trial
- The TALKS study to improve communication, logistical, and financial barriers to live donor kidney transplantation in African Americans: protocol of a randomized clinical trial.BMC nephrology · 2015Trial
- A Cross-Sectional Social Network Analysis of Decision-Making About Recruiting a Living Donor for Kidney Transplantation.Kidney medicine · 2025Article
- System Interventions to Achieve Early and Equitable Kidney Transplants (STEPS): Protocol for STEPS, a randomized comparative effectiveness clinical trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Successful Collaboration: A Tale of a Tertiary Care Hospital and Its Designated Organ Procurement Organization.Cureus · 2024Article
- National Attitudes Toward Living Kidney Donation in the United States: Results of a Public Opinion Survey.Kidney medicine · 2024Article
- Social network interventions to reduce race disparities in living kidney donation: Design and rationale of the friends and family of kidney transplant patients study (FFKTPS).Clinical transplantation · 2023Article
- African Americans' discussions about living-donor kidney transplants with family or friends: Who, what, and why not?Clinical transplantation · 2021Article
- Strategies for Increasing Knowledge, Communication, and Access to Living Donor Transplantation: an Evidence Review to Inform Patient Education.Current transplantation reports · 2018Article
- An overview of disparities and interventions in pediatric kidney transplantation worldwide.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2015Review
- Applying best practices to designing patient education for patients with end-stage renal disease pursuing kidney transplant.Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) · 2015Review
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Abstract
Live kidney transplantation (LKT) is underused by patients with end-stage renal disease. Easily implementable and effective interventions to improve patients' early consideration of LKT are needed. The Talking About Live Kidney Donation (TALK) social worker intervention (SWI) improved consideration and pursuit of LKT among patients with progressive chronic kidney disease in a recent randomized controlled trial: Patients and their families were invited to meet twice with a social worker to discuss their self-identified barriers to seeking LKT and to identify solutions to barriers. The authors audio recorded and transcribed all social worker visits to assess implementation of the TALK SWI and its acceptability to patients and families. The study social worker adhered to the TALK SWI protocol more than 90 percent of the time. Patients and families discussed medical (for example, long-term risks of transplant), psychological (for example, patients' denial of the severity of their disease), and economic (for example, impact of donation on family finances) concerns regarding LKT. Most patients and families felt that the intervention was helpful. Consistently high adherence to the TALK SWI protocol and acceptability of the intervention among patients and families suggest that the TALK SWI can be feasibly implemented in clinical practice.
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