Efficacy of an educational intervention with kidney transplant recipients to promote skin self-examination for squamous cell carcinoma detection.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop easily disseminated educational materials that enable early detection of skin cancer, and to examine the effectiveness of the materials to promote skin self-examination (SSE) among kidney transplant recipients (KTRs).

Design

Randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention in comparison with a group that received only the assessment, education, and treatment as part of usual care with a nephrologist.

Setting

Academic ambulatory nephrology practice.

Patients

Seventy-five KTRs returning for routine care to their nephrologists 1 to 1.2 years or 3 to 7 years after transplantation.

Intervention

Educational workbook.

Main outcome measures

Skin self-examination performance and new appointments with a dermatologist if a con

SUBMITTER: Robinson JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3810290 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature