ArticleTransplantation direct2020
Educational Animations to Inform Transplant Candidates About Deceased Donor Kidney Options: An Efficacy Randomized Trial.
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- How effective are video animations as information tools for patients and the general public? An updated systematic review.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Pooled it
- Decision aids for people facing health treatment or screening decisions.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Randomized Controlled Trial of a Digital Intervention (KidneyTIME) to Promote Live Donor Kidney Transplantation.Clinical transplantation · 2026Trial
- Can an Animation Improve Parents' Knowledge and How Does It Compare to Written Information? Development and Survey Evaluation of an Animation for Parents About Prenatal Sequencing.Prenatal diagnosis · 2026Trial
- Informing transplant candidate and donor education in living kidney donation: mapping educational needs through a rapid review.BMC nephrology · 2025Review
- Current usage of explainer animations in trials: a survey of the UKCRC registered clinical trial units in the UK.Trials · 2024Article
- Creating the nursing care map in the evaluation of kidney transplant candidates: A scoping review and narrative synthesis.Nursing open · 2023Article
- Kidney organ allocation: reducing discards.Current opinion in organ transplantation · 2023Review
- Preliminary feasibility of animated video education designed to empower patients' referral to kidney transplantation.Clinical transplantation · 2023Article
- The effectiveness of video animations as information tools for patients and the general public: A systematic review.Frontiers in digital health · 2022Review
- Patient and Clinician Perceptions of Informed Consent and Decision Making About Accepting KDPI > 85 Kidneys.Transplantation direct · 2022Article
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Pretransplant Educational Intervention in Kidney Patients.Transplantation direct · 2021Article
- Kidney Transplant Evaluation and Listing: Development and Preliminary Evaluation of Multimedia Education for Patients.Annals of transplantation · 2021Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundTransplant candidates struggle making decisions about accepting kidneys with variable kidney donor profile index (KDPI) and increased risk donor (IRD) status.
methodsThis single site, pilot randomized controlled trial evaluated the efficacy of 2 animations to improve KDPI/IRD knowledge, decisional self-efficacy, and willingness. Kidney candidates were randomly assigned to animation viewing plus standard nurse discussion (intervention) or standard nurse discussion alone (control). Linear regression was used to test the significance of animation exposure after controlling for covariates (α < 0.1).
resultsMean age was 60 years, and 27% were African American. Both intervention (n = 42) and control (n = 38) groups received similar education at similar duration (12.8 versus 11.8 min, respectively), usually by the same dedicated nurse educator (85% versus 75%, respectively). On multivariate analysis, the intervention group (versus control) exhibited significantly increased knowledge (β = 0.23; 95% confidence interval, 0.66-1.77) and IRD willingness (β = 0.22; 95% confidence interval, 0.05-0.86). There were no between-group differences in KDPI >85% willingness or distribution of KDPI/IRD decisional self-efficacy. Over 90% of participants provided positive ratings on each of 11 acceptability items.
conclusionsSupporting conventional IRD and KDPI education with educational animations can improve knowledge and IRD willingness compared with standard methods.
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