Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

Stanford University

Code:

NCT02610946

Conditions

Kidney Transplantation

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12 - 18

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Electronic application

Paper-based

Study Details

Brief summary:

The purpose of this study is to empower adolescent renal transplant recipients to fully understand their medical condition as well as to help them acquire the skills to maintain a healthy allograft well into adulthood. It is hoped that introducing technological applications (apps) will assist adolescents in managing medications, clinic appointments, lab appointments, and in tracking fluid intake, blood pressure, caloric intake, and exercise frequency. The investigators aim to improve adolescent post-renal transplant outcomes (increase medication adherence, lower clinic and laboratory no-show rate, lower blood pressure and BMI, maintain creatinine clearance, decrease proteinuria, decrease incidence of allograft rejection, decrease hospitalizations) as well as reduce cost.

Conditions

Kidney Transplantation

Study ID

NCT02610946

Start date

Apr, 2015

Status verified date

Nov, 2015

Completion date

Apr, 2016

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Apr, 2016

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 12 - 18

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Adolescent patients between 12 and 18 years of age with kidney transplants seen at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital for their transplant care at least every 3 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Non-English speaking,
  • significant cognitive delays,
  • seen in clinic less often than every 3 months.

Study Design

Enrollment

30 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

placebo comparator: Paper-based

Use of paper-based calenders, reminders, medication list, and blood pressure, fluid intake tracking methods in adolescent renal transplant care

experimental: Electronic application

Use of electronic apps (iphone or i-Pad mini) to determine whether it can improve compliance with transplant care and readiness to transition to adult care.

Interventions

Electronic application

Electronic application (app) based intervention to improve adolescent compliance with transplant care and readiness to transition to adult care.

Paper-based

Paper-based intervention to improve adolescent compliance with transplant care and readiness to transition to adult care.

Primary outcome measure

  • Compliance [ Time Frame: 1 year ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Ha Tran, MD

650-723-7903hatran@stanford.edu

Priya Chandra, MD

650-723-7903priyac1@stanford.edu

Locations

Stanford University Hospital and Clinics

Recruiting

Palo Alto, California, United States, 94305

Contacts

Ha Tran, MD

650-723-7903hatran@stanford.edu

Priya Chandra, MD

650-723-7903priyac1@stanford.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Stanford University

Last update posted

Nov 20, 2015

Last verified

Nov, 2015

Keywords

  • pediatric
  • adolescent
  • compliance

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Stanford University on 2015-11-20.