A distance-based living donor kidney education program for Black wait-list candidates: A feasibility randomized trial.

ABSTRACT: Addressing racial disparities in living donor kidney transplants (LDKT) among Black patients warrants innovative programs to improve living donation rates. The Living Organ Video Educated Donors (LOVED) program is a 2-arm, culturally-tailored, distance-based, randomized controlled feasibility trial. The group-based, 8-week program used peer-navigator led video chat sessions and web-app video education for Black kidney waitlisted patients from United States southeastern state. Primary feasibility results for LOVED (n = 24) and usual care (n = 24) arms included LOVED program tolerability (i.e., 95.8% retention), program fidelity (i.e., 78.9% video education adherence and 72.1% video chat adherence). LDKT attitudinal and knowledge results favored the LOVED group where a statistically signific

SUBMITTER: Sieverdes JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9888645 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature