Interventions for Promoting Kidney Transplant Empowerment

Conditions

• Kidney Transplant Waitlisting

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

18 Years - 75 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Usual Care — OTHER
  Participants are provided care as usual. Clinicians (CKD, HD, KTx) will educate participants on the kidney transplant process. Clinician will receive the education intervention to provide participants at study end.
• Community Health Worker Assistance — OTHER
  Community health worker will address unmet social needs and participant symptoms through evaluations and intake to clinical and community services
• Intervention Providers — OTHER
  Intervention providers will receive education, which will include training on working with CHWs, reducing bias in clinical decision-making, and increasing affirming/reducing stigmatizing language in electronic health records (EHRs).

Study Details

This is a cluster randomized controlled clinical trial evaluating the effect of community health workers (CHWs) and provider education on kidney transplant (KTx) waitlisting compared to usual care (waitlist control). CKD/HD providers will be randomized to intervention or control, and all patients with the same providers will be in the same randomization group. CHWs will address unmet social needs and patient symptoms through evaluations and linkage to clinical and community services. Intervention providers will receive education, which will include training on working with CHWs, reducing bias in clinical decision-making, and increasing affirming/reducing stigmatizing language in electronic health records (EHRs).

Key Dates

Start date

Aug 5, 2025

Status verified

Apr 2026

Primary completion

Dec 30, 2026

Completion

Dec 29, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment

5 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Arms

• Other: Community Health Worker and Intervention Providers-Assisted Kidney Transplant Support
  Participants will receive assignment to a community health worker who will educate them on the kidney transplant process, assist them through the kidney transplant process and connect them with any necessary social services.
• Other: Usual Care
  Participants will receive usual care and at the end of the study will receive education, and work with CHWs in a more limited capacity. Control clinicians will receive the education intervention.

Primary Outcome Measure

Time to completion of kidney transplant waitlisting evaluation [ Time Frame: Baseline, and then every 6 months up to 2 years ]

Central Contacts

• Lili Chan
  929-618-0350
  [email protected]

Locations (3)

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