Social network interventions to reduce race disparities in living kidney donation: Design and rationale of the friends and family of kidney transplant patients study (FFKTPS).
Daw, J., et al.Clinical Transplantation 2023 [record in progress].
Aims
This protocol aims to provide the rationale behind the design of the Friends and Family of Kidney Transplant Patients Study (FFKTPS) and the planned analyses to test the efficacy of these interventions.
Interventions
Participants will be randomly assigned into four groups: no intervention, search only, script only, or both search and script.
Participants
Kidney transplant candidates.
Outcomes
The primary endpoint is living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) recipient. The secondary endpoints are live kidney donor (LKD) screening and medical evaluations and outcomes.
Follow-up
36 months
CET Conclusions
This paper details the protocol for a very interesting study in live kidney donation. Potential kidney transplant recipients will be randomised into four groups: 1) No intervention, 2) search intervention- advising patients on which social network members are most likely to be contraindication free, 3) script intervention- advises patients on how to initiate effective live kidney donor discussions, 4) both search and script interventions. The primary outcome is the receipt of a live kidney transplant. This study will be conducted in the USA, where there are currently large discrepancies in live donation rates between ethnic groups. The supplemental material online gives an excellent background to the study and thorough explanation of the rationale.
Trial registration
Not reported