Trial reportTransplantation2017
Effect of a Mobile Web App on Kidney Transplant Candidates' Knowledge About Increased Risk Donor Kidneys: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Do patient decision aids help people who are facing decisions about solid organ transplantation? A systematic review.Clinical transplantation · 2023Pooled it
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- Interventions for improving health literacy in people with chronic kidney disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness of IT-based interventions on self-management in adult kidney transplant recipients: a systematic review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2021Pooled it
- Interventions to Improve Patient Comprehension in Informed Consent for Medical and Surgical Procedures: An Updated Systematic Review.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2020Pooled it
- eHealth interventions for people with chronic kidney disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- 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
- Effect of the iChoose Kidney decision aid in improving knowledge about treatment options among transplant candidates: A randomized controlled trial.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2018Trial
- Technology-Enabled Remote Patient Monitoring and Education to Improve Kidney Transplant Knowledge, Access, and Post-Transplant Care: A Narrative Review.Current transplantation reports · 2025Article
- Can health information and decision aids decrease inequity in health care? A systematic review.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Design and evaluation of an educational mobile program for liver transplant patients.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Children's Oncology Group KidsCare smartphone application for parents of children with cancer.Pediatric blood & cancer · 2023Article
- A Patient-Centered Website (Within Reach) to Foster Informed Decision-making About Upper Extremity Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation: Development and Usability Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of education and attitudes toward different types of deceased donor kidneys: Survey analysis of single-center experience.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- Educational Animations to Inform Transplant Candidates About Deceased Donor Kidney Options: An Efficacy Randomized Trial.Transplantation direct · 2020Article
- Utilisation of kidneys from deceased donors at increased risk of infectious disease transmission: a step in the right direction.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2020Article
- National Variation in Increased Infectious Risk Kidney Offer Acceptance.Transplantation · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundKidney transplant candidates (KTCs) must provide informed consent to accept kidneys from increased risk donors (IRD), but poorly understand them. We conducted a multisite, randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of a mobile Web application, Inform Me, for increasing knowledge about IRDs.
methodsKidney transplant candidates undergoing transplant evaluation at 2 transplant centers were randomized to use Inform Me after routine transplant education (intervention) or routine transplant education alone (control). Computer adaptive learning method reinforced learning by embedding educational material, and initial (test 1) and additional test questions (test 2) into each chapter. Knowledge (primary outcome) was assessed in person after education (tests 1 and 2), and 1 week later by telephone (test 3). Controls did not receive test 2. Willingness to accept an IRD kidney (secondary outcome) was assessed after tests 1 and 3. Linear regression test 1 knowledge scores were used to test the significance of Inform Me exposure after controlling for covariates. Multiple imputation was used for intention-to-treat analysis.
resultsTwo hundred eighty-eight KTCs participated. Intervention participants had higher test 1 knowledge scores (mean difference, 6.61; 95% confidence interval [95% CI], 5.37-7.86) than control participants, representing a 44% higher score than control participants' scores. Intervention participants' knowledge scores increased with educational reinforcement (test 2) compared with control arm test 1 scores (mean difference, 9.50; 95% CI, 8.27-10.73). After 1 week, intervention participants' knowledge remained greater than controls' knowledge (mean difference, 3.63; 95% CI, 2.49-4.78) (test 3). Willingness to accept an IRD kidney did not differ between study arms at tests 1 and 3.
conclusionsInform Me use was associated with greater KTC knowledge about IRD kidneys above routine transplant education alone.
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