Development and Test of a Communication Skills Training for Transplant Providers - Aims 2 & 3

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Sponsor
Temple University
Study ID
NCT06182475
Status
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Conditions

  • End Stage Renal Disease
  • Kidney Disease, Chronic
  • Kidney Replacement

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - N/A
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • EPPComm Provider Training — BEHAVIORAL
    A curriculum will be developed to educate patients about LDKT and promote the search of potential living donors while supporting patients' values and cultural preferences. The curriculum will consist of two components: didactic education and skills-based communication. The didactic component provides evidence of the impact of patient-provider communication and LDKT process outcomes for Black and Caucasian patients. The skills-based component will build communication confidence leading discussions about LDKT. It provides instructions for the key communication skills needed to confidently assuage patients' concerns about LDKT/live donation and motivates patients to search for living donor. The following will be covered: providing LDKT information/answering questions, highlighting LDKT benefits, refuting live donation misinformation, and encouraging patients to seek living donors.

Study Details

The goal of this clinical trial is to understand the communication occurring between Black and Caucasian patients and their transplant providers during transplant evaluation consultations and assess relationships between these communicative elements and patient and provider factors, patient-reported outcomes and living donor transplant outcomes - living donor referrals, evaluations, and transplants. We will use these findings to inform the development of a communication skills training for transplant providers and test the impact of the training on providers' communication about live donor kidney transplants with Black and Caucasian patients and living donor transplant outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are: * How does the use of the use of instrumental, relational and affective communication by patients and providers during the transplant consultation differ by patient and provider factors, patient-reported outcomes and patient ethnicity? * What elements of instrumental, relational and affective communication will be predictive of live donor kidney transplant (LDKT) process outcomes (LD inquiries and evaluations, and actual LDKTs)? Participants will be asked to complete brief surveys before and after the transplant consultation and to give permission for the consultation to be audiorecorded. This data will be used to develop a training to educate providers on the key communication factors predictive of LDKT process outcomes specific to Black and Caucasian patients, and provide guidance on their application during patient consultations. Researchers will then compare communication and patient-reported and LDKT process outcomes between trained and untrained providers to see whether the training has any effect on living donor inquiries and evaluations, and actual LDKTs.

Key Dates

Start date
Sep 30, 2026
Status verified
May 2026
Primary completion
Mar 31, 2027
Completion
May 31, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment
70 participants (estimated)
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Arms

  • Experimental: EPPCom Provider Training
    A highly engaging and interactive 60-minute, in-person communication skills training program will be developed as part of this project. Participating transplant providers will complete a brief online survey before (pre) and after (post) participating in the training.

Primary Outcome Measure

Live donor inquiries [ Time Frame: Through study completion, 4 years ]

Central Contacts

Locations (2)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
Cooperman Barnabas Medical CenterLivingstonNew Jersey07039
Francis Weng, MD
[email protected]
973-322-8216
Temple UniversityPhiladelphiaPennsylvania19122
Heather M Gardiner (Traino), PhD, MPH
[email protected]
215-204-8330

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