Education: Comprehensive chronic kidney disease education for kidney transplant recipients
Summary
Comprehensive Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patient education (CPE) has been an effective resource for CKD patients. Kidney transplant patients are at a stage 3 CKD even with a perfect graft. 54% of new renal transplants are done in prior transplanted patients. In addition, over 6000 lose the graft over the first 3 years. There are very few interventions targeting education in this vulnerable population. One-year post-kidney-transplant may be an optimal time to provide them with CPE when they transition providers from transplant physicians to local providers. We hope to prolong kidney allograft life with CPE. CPE will use validated education materials already available at the institution.
First the teams will review the current educational material for relevance for the transplant patient subgroup and update as required.
We would study proof of concept in four groups.Group1 will be self-learning with CKD workbook,Group 2 with the workbook and education videos,Group 3 with CKD workbook plus real time education with renal educators, social workers and dieticians, andGroup 4 will be the control group without intervention.Furthermore, we will follow outcomes at 1 year, and 3 years.
Researchers:
- Manisha Singh (Author)
- Raj Patel
- Manuel Gomzalez