Recruiting

Telemedicine

Sponsor:

UCLA

Code:

NCT07206069

Conditions

Healthy

Living Kidney Donation

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Standard Care (in control arm)

Telemedicine Shared Decision-Making

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this feasibility clinical trial is to learn if telemedicine can be used to provide education and evaluation and counseling for people who are considering living kidney donation. The study will also learn how participants improve decision-making about living kidney donation. The main questions to answer are:

  • Is telemedicine a practical way to facilitate donor education and evaluation and counseling?
  • Does telemedicine shared decision making help improve donor candidate decision and engagement during the donor evaluation process?

Researchers will compare standard care with a telemedicine care coordination approach.

Participants will:

\- Receive either standard care or telemedicine video visits to support shared decision making.

Conditions

Healthy

Living Kidney Donation

Study ID

NCT07206069

Start date

May 4, 2026

Status verified date

May, 2026

Completion date

Dec 30, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Nov 30, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18 years of age or older
  • Reside in the State of California
  • Registered living kidney donor candidate at UC Irvine Medical Center

Exclusion Criteria:

\- Individuals with a contraindication to living kidney donation (for example, heart disease, cancer)

Study Design

Enrollment

70 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

active comparator: Standard Care Group (Control)

Participants in the standard care group will receive a recorded video education session and one in-person donor evaluation and counseling session with a nephrologist.

experimental: Telemedicine Group (Intervention)

Participants in the telemedicine group will receive two live telemedicine video sessions: one education session with a transplant provider and one donor evaluation and counseling session with a nephrologist.

Interventions

Standard Care (in control arm)

This Standard Care involves a recorded video education and in-person visit.

Telemedicine Shared Decision-Making

This intervention involves two live telemedicine video visits.

Primary outcome measure

  • Recruitment Rate [ Time Frame: 90 days ]
  • Retention Rate [ Time Frame: 90 days ]
  • Change in Decisional Conflict Measured by the Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS) [ Time Frame: 90 days ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Fawaz Al Ammary, MD PhD

657-223-4966fawaz.alammary@uci.edu

Ivette Nunez, BS

949-824-7315ivetter4@hs.uci.edu

Locations

University of California Irvine Medical Center

Recruiting

Orange, California, United States, 92868

Contacts

Steven Vasquez

714-456-7431stevenv4@hs.uci.edu

Stefaney Mendoza-Flores

949-447-9439stefanem@hs.uci.edu

More Information

Sponsor

University of California, Irvine

Last update posted

May 5, 2026

Last verified

May, 2026

Keywords

  • Kidney donation
  • Telemedicine
  • Education
  • Counseling
  • Decision Making, Shared
  • Feasibility studies
  • Health Services Research
  • Care Delivery

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by University of California, Irvine on 2026-05-05.