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Table 1 Advantages of Your Path to Transplant computer-tailored education

From: Your Path to Transplant: a randomized controlled trial of a tailored computer education intervention to increase living donor kidney transplant

Innovation

Implementation

Resource

Tailors education to individual patient needs

□ Tailored based on individual patients’ transplant knowledge and decision-making

TTM-based computer–tailored intervention that was designed to track a patient’s attitudinal shifts over time

â–¡ Provides information and recommends steps to pursue transplant in small doses at multiple time points

□ Tracks patients’ knowledge and attitudinal shifts over time, allowing coaches to acknowledge growth and change

Provides education in multiple media/formats

â–¡ Provides education in multiple formats to account for multiple learning styles, including video stories, provider-led coaching sessions, and individually-tailored reports

Cultural competency-trained coaches providing individualized coaching to the patient and disseminating educational pamphlets, factsheets and a DVD that highlights the experiences of kidney donors and recipients

â–¡ Includes an in-person educational session with each patient to develop greater relationship between the patients and the coaches

â–¡ Provides a culturally competent and socioeconomically sensitive coach to help guide patients through the education and transplant process for deceased and living donor transplant separately

Engages external resources to help patients pursue transplant

□ Includes educational resources to engage patients’ support networks and potential living donors to learn about transplant along with the patient 

A guide for family and friends is available for those family members and close friends of patients who want to learn about kidney transplant

â–¡ Provides resources to help patients overcome socioeconomic barriers limiting their access to transplant

Patients are given a 43 page community resource guide that contains information ranging from dental services to low cost transportation in the LA County area