Trial reportAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2021
Transplant social worker and donor financial assistance to increase living donor kidney transplants among African Americans: The TALKS Study, a randomized comparative effectiveness trial.
Trial report in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02369354 (Transplant Social Worker Support for Live Kidney Donation in African Americans), which is not on this map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Transplant Social Worker Support for Live Kidney Donation in African Americans
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions for improving health literacy in people with chronic kidney disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Examining post-donation outcomes in Hispanic/Latinx living kidney donors in the United States: A systematic review.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2022Pooled it
- Education Intervention for Evaluation and Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A randomized trial.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Transplant House Calls Plus Peer Mentorship: Assessing Impact on Living Donor Kidney Transplant Access and Patient-Reported Outcomes for Black Patients.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Forging a path toward kidney transplant equity through multilevel interventions.Current opinion in organ transplantation · 2025Review
- Factors Associated With Willingness to Become a Living Organ Donor.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Investigating the controversial link between pediatric obesity and graft survival in kidney transplantation.World journal of nephrology · 2025Article
- Racial Equity in Living Donor Kidney Transplant Centers, 2008-2018.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Knowledge About Renal Transplantation Among African, Caribbean, and Black Canadian Patients With Advanced Kidney Failure.Kidney international reports · 2023Article
- Multidisciplinary Support To Access living donor Kidney Transplant (MuST AKT): A Clinical Research Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial to Increase Living Kidney Donation.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2023Article
- Journey to Transplant: Developing a social support network counselling intervention to improve kidney transplantation.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022Article
- Kidneys for Sale: Are We There Yet? (Commentary on Kidneys for Sale: Empirical Evidence From Iran).Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2022Article
- A Cascade of Structural Barriers Contributing to Racial Kidney Transplant Inequities.Advances in chronic kidney disease · 2021Review
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Abstract
Lack of donors hinders living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) for African Americans. We studied the effectiveness of a transplant social worker intervention (TALK SWI) alone or paired with living donor financial assistance to activate African Americans' potential living kidney donors. African Americans (N = 300) on the transplant waiting list were randomly assigned to usual care; TALK SWI; or TALK SWI plus Living Donor Financial Assistance. We quantified differences in live kidney donor activation (composite rate of live donor inquiries, completed new live donor evaluations, or live kidney donation) after 12 months. Participants' mean age was 52 years, 56% were male, and 43% had annual household income less than $40,000. Most previously pursued LDKT. Participants were highly satisfied with TALK social workers, but they rarely utilized Financial Assistance. After 12 months, few (n = 39, 13%) participants had a new donor activation event (35 [12%] new donor inquiries; 17 [6%] new donor evaluations; 4 [1%] LDKT). There were no group differences in donor activation events (subdistribution hazard ratio [95% CI]: 1.09 [0.51-2.30] for TALK SWI and 0.92 [0.42-2.02] for TALK SWI plus Financial Assistance compared to Usual Care, p = 91). Alternative interventions to increase LDKT for African Americans on the waiting list may be needed. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02369354).
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