The Use of the Social Networking to Promote Educational and Consultative Actions Among Kidney Transplanted Adolescents.

Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul

Status: Completed

Conditions: Education; Kidney Transplantation

Treatments: Behavioral: Facebook group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03214965

5259/16

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to compare the knowledge, satisfaction and self-esteem of kidney transplanted adolescents measured through questionnaires between two groups: patients undergoing conventional treatment with no other intervention versus patients undergoing conventional treatment and receiving additional educational and consultative actions using a closed facebook group.

Full description

Based on literature, there are strong evidences that the use of social media improves the outcomes of chronic treatments. Currently, there is no study using social media as an education tool in kidney transplant patients in Brazil. This study is designed to answer the question: "Does the use of a popular social media such as facebook improves the knowledge, satisfaction and self-steem levels among kidney transplant adolescents when compared with their peers ?" This is a non-blinded randomized clinical trial. Patients will be randomly included into one of the two groups: the control group who will not receive any intervention or the facebook group (who will receive additional educational and consultative support through a closed facebook group) After three months, knowledge level, satisfaction level and self-esteem will be assessed by specific designed questionnaires and by the application of the Rosenberg's self-esteem scale. The study will have a sample of 122 subjects, equally divided (61 participants in each group). Collected data will be compared using the chi square test.

Enrollment: 128 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 21 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

• patients receiving follow up care by the transplant interdisciplinary team either in the pre or in the post transplant period

Exclusion criteria

• patients with chronic kidney disease not enrolled to receive a kidney transplant.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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128 participants in 2 patient groups

Facebook group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients of the kidney transplantation group randomly assigned to be part of a closed facebook group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Facebook group

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients of the kidney transplantation group that do not receive specific educational interventions.