Patient-Centered mHealth Living Donor Transplant Education Program for African Americans: Development and Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a critical need to expand the pool of available kidneys for African Americans who are on the transplant wait-list due to the disproportionally lower availability of deceased donor kidneys compared with other races/ethnic groups. Encouraging living donation is one method to fill this need. Incorporating mHealth strategies may be a way to deliver educational and supportive services to African American transplant-eligible patients and improve reach to those living in remote areas or unable to attend traditional group-session-based programs. Before program development, it is essential to perform formative research with target populations to determine acceptability and cultivate a patient-centered and culturally relevant approach to be used for program development.

SUBMITTER: Sieverdes JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4705021 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature