Pediatric Heart Transplantation: Transitioning to Adult Care (TRANSIT)

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Transplantation

Treatments: Behavioral: TRANSIT

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02090257

1R34HL111492

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this pilot trial, Transitioning to Adult Care (TRANSIT), is to develop and test an intervention (i.e., a standardized, tailored transition program focused on enhancing adherence) to improve outcomes for emerging adults who underwent heart transplantation as children and transfer to adult care.

Enrollment: 88 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Have received a heart transplant at a children's hospital and are ready to transition, as determined by the pediatric heart transplant cardiologist, to the adult heart transplant center with whom a collaborative relationship has been established;
• 18 years or older;
• Able to speak, read at a fifth grade level or above, and write English;
• Physically able to participate.

Exclusion criteria

• History of psychiatric hospitalization within the last 3 months, assessed on a case-by-case basis with exclusion only if patients could not potentially benefit from the intervention.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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88 participants in 2 patient groups

TRANSIT, behavioral

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group will receive more guidance during their transition from a pediatric center to the adult center

Treatment:

Behavioral: TRANSIT

Usual Care Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The usual care group will receive a standard transfer of care from a pediatric center to an adult center.