Trial reportBMC nephrology2015
The TALKS study to improve communication, logistical, and financial barriers to live donor kidney transplantation in African Americans: protocol of a randomized clinical trial.
Trial report in BMC nephrology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Transplant Social Worker Support for Live Kidney Donation in African Americans
Increasing Equity in Live Donor Kidney Transplantation Through Effective Patient-Provider Communication
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- 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
- Incorporating health literacy principles into the adaptation of a methods motivational interviewing approach for enrolling black adults in a pilot randomized trial.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Acceptability of a Mobile-Health Living Kidney Donor Advocacy Program for Black Wait-Listed Patients.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
- 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
- Your Path to Transplant: A randomized controlled trial of a tailored expert system intervention to increase knowledge, attitudes, and pursuit of kidney transplant.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2021Trial
- Measurement Characteristics of the Knowledge Assessment of Renal Transplantation.Transplantation · 2019Trial
- Trends in African Americans' Attitudes and Behaviors About Living Donor Kidney Transplantation.Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) · 2018Trial
- Patients' Attitudes on the Use of Expanded Outreach to Find a Kidney Donor: A Mixed-Methods Study.Kidney medicine · 2026Article
- The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Diagnostic Testing Time Completion for African American End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Patients Being Evaluated for Kidney Transplantation.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Education Intervention for Evaluation and Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A randomized trial.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- 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
- Racial Equity in Living Donor Kidney Transplant Centers, 2008-2018.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Association of Age and Gender With Concerns About Live Donor Kidney Transplantation Among Black Individuals.Transplantation proceedings · 2023Article
- Health System-Level Barriers to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: Protocol for a Comparative Case Study Analysis.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- A scoping review of inequities in access to organ transplant in the United States.International journal for equity in health · 2022Article
- African Americans' discussions about living-donor kidney transplants with family or friends: Who, what, and why not?Clinical transplantation · 2021Article
- Renal Replacement Knowledge and Preferences for African Americans With Chronic Kidney Disease.Journal of renal care · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
14 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundLive donor kidney transplantation (LDKT), an optimal therapy for many patients with end-stage kidney disease, is underutilized, particularly by African Americans. Potential recipient difficulties initiating and sustaining conversations about LDKT, identifying willing and medically eligible donors, and potential donors' logistical and financial hurdles have been cited as potential contributors to race disparities in LDKT. Few interventions specifically targeting these factors have been tested. METHODS/
designWe report the protocol of the Talking about Living Kidney Donation Support (TALKS) study, a study designed to evaluate the effectiveness of behavioral, educational and financial assistance interventions to improve access to LDKT among African Americans on the deceased donor kidney transplant recipient waiting list. We adapted a previously tested educational and social worker intervention shown to improve consideration and pursuit of LDKT among patients and their family members for its use among patients on the kidney transplant waiting list. We also developed a financial assistance intervention to help potential donors overcome logistical and financial challenges they might face during the pursuit of live kidney donation. We will evaluate the effectiveness of these interventions by conducting a randomized controlled trial in which patients on the deceased donor waiting list receive 1) usual care while on the transplant waiting list, 2) the educational and social worker intervention, or 3) the educational and social worker intervention plus the option of participating in the financial assistance program. The primary outcome of the randomized controlled trial will measure potential recipients' live kidney donor activation (a composite rate of live donor inquiries, completed new live donor evaluations, or live kidney donation) at 1 year. DISCUSSION: The TALKS study will rigorously assess the effectiveness of promising interventions to reduce race disparities in LDKT.
trial registrationNCT02369354.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.