Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Culturally Sensitive Behavioral Interventions to Enhance Living Kidney Donation / Living Kidney Transplantation
Brief Summary: Title: Culturally tailored behavioral interventions to enhance living kidney donation/living kidney transplantation Applicants: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, National Kidney Foundation of Maryland Principal Investigator: Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA Address: 2024 E. Monument Street, Suite 2-600, Baltimore, MD, 21205 Phone: 410-955-6953; Email: npowe@jhmi.edu; Fax: 410-955-0476 Rates of kidney donation have been largely stagnant for the past 10 years, resulting in large imbalances in numbers of persons on transplant waiting lists and the number of persons receiving kidney transplants. Slow improvement in donation and transplantation rates are exacerbated by ethnic/racial disparities in kidney transplants, in which minorities, particularly African Americans, are far less likely to receive deceased kidney transplants. Although living related kidney donation (LD) offers patients an opportunity to bypass many barriers contributing to disparities in kidney transplantation (e.g. waiting lists and immunological incompatibility issues), African Americans remain less likely to receive living related kidney transplants (LRT), further exacerbating disparities in transplant rates. Recent research demonstrates many ethnic minorities desire kidney transplantation, but rates of patient-physician and patient-family discussions regarding LD/LRT are suboptimal. Compared to Whites, African Americans have also been shown to have disproportionately greater rates of culture-specific concerns (such as mistrust in health care) that could impede them from seeking important medical therapies. It is unknown whether culturally tailored behavioral interventions to enhance patient/family decision-making regarding LD/LRT before the onset of end stage renal disease could improve rates of LD/LRT or could narrow racial disparities in the receipt of transplantation. The primary goal of this proposal is a) to use focus group methodology to develop culturally tailored educational materials for patients/families considering LD/LRT and b) to perform a randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a culturally tailored social-worker led intervention (using established behavioral problem-solving therapeutic techniques) in enhancing rates of family communication, donor evaluations, and transplantation. The substantial experience of our consortium, including the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland and the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (Welch Center and the Medical Surgical Transplant Services in the School of Medicine), in the evaluation/ implementation of donor/recipient educational programs as well as the conduct of behavioral, epidemiologic and interventional studies related to donor/recipient health and psychology provides a strong foundation for the conduct of this study.


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A: Arm Label: Control Arm; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: Website Intervention; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Website Intervention | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Website Intervention; Assigned to Arm(s): Website Intervention
B: Arm Label: Usual education (standard care); Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: Intensive initial education; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Intensive initial education | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Intensive initial education; Assigned to Arm(s): Intensive initial education
C: Arm Label: Expert System Coaching; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: Expert System Coaching | Arm Label: Control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Expert System Coaching; Assigned to Arm(s): Expert System Coaching
D: Arm Label: TALK Plus; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: TALK PLUS | Arm Label: TALK Standard; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Behavioral: TALK Standard | Arm Label: Usual Care; Type: OTHER; Interventions: Behavioral: Usual Care | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: TALK PLUS; Assigned to Arm(s): TALK Plus | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: TALK Standard; Assigned to Arm(s): TALK Standard | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Usual Care; Assigned to Arm(s): Usual Care

Answer: D