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Table 4 Study outcomes and assessments

From: The TALKS study to improve communication, logistical, and financial barriers to live donor kidney transplantation in African Americans: protocol of a randomized clinical trial

 

Baseline

4 months

12 months

Primary outcome: Live kidney donor activation (Composite)

 Live donor kidney transplantation (LDKT)

 

X

X

 Completed live donor evaluations

X

X

X

 Live donor inquiries to transplant center

X

X

X

Secondary outcomes

   

 LDKT discussions with physician

X

X

X

 LDKT discussions with family and/or friends

X

X

X

 Identification of potential live donor

X

X

X

Belief & knowledge about treatment for kidney failure, interest in LDKT

 Beliefs about treatment for kidney failure

X

X

X

 Knowledge of LDKT

X

X

X

 Interest in and concerns about LDKT

X

X

X

 Knowledge of kidney transplant financial assistance programs

X

X

X

 Barriers to and quality of family discussion about LDKT

X

X

X

Mediators and correlates of pursuit of LDKT

   

 Current treatment information

X

X

X

 Socio-demographic Information

X

  

 Family wealtha

X

  

 Family function (Family APGAR Scale) [32]

X

  

 Decision self-efficacy about LDKT [33]

X

X

X

 Decisional conflict scale [34]

X

X

X

 Trust in medical care [35, 36]

X

  

 Barriers to obtaining information about LDKT

 

X

X

 Depressed mood (PRIME-MD) [37]

X

X

X

 Social health (PROMIS-SF) [38, 39]

X

X

X

 Risk numeracy [40, 41]

X

  

 Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM) [42]

X

  

 Personal financial well-being scalea [43]

X

  

Patient assessment of providers and systems

   

 Cultural competence of health care providers [29]

X

X

X

 In-center dialysis care [44]

X

X

X

 Nephrologists’ communication and caring

X

X

X

Fidelity to TALK SWI protocol, intervention uptake and satisfaction

 Participant use of TALK SWI educational materials

 

X

X

 Participant satisfaction with TALK SWI sessionsa

 

X

 

 Transplant social worker adherence to TALK SWI protocol

 

X

X

 Use of financial assistance programs (by donors) and types of expenditures reimbursed

 

X

X

  1. aInformation is provided by patient participants and family member participants