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

The Use of the Social Networking to Promote Educational and Consultative Actions Among Kidney Transplanted Adolescents. Comparison of the Knowledge, Satisfaction and Self-esteem Between Two Groups: a Randomized Clinical Trial.

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Kidney Transplantation; Education
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Facebook group

Detailed 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.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 128
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Brazil
  • Rio Grande do Sul
    • Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 90240-510
      • Hospital da Criança Santo Antônio da Santa Casa de Misericórdia

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 12 years to 21 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Facebook group; Patients of the kidney transplantation group randomly assigned to be part of a closed facebook group.	Behavioral: Facebook group; A closed facebook group used to deliver multimedia content specifically produced to inform the participants about chronic kidney disease, kidney transplantation and related topics. This group is also used to share doubts and life experiences among participants and the interdisciplinary team.
No Intervention: Control group; Patients of the kidney transplantation group that do not receive specific educational interventions.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Knowledge about the disease	Knowledge about the disease and associated conditions measured by a specific designed questionnaire.	3 months
Satisfaction about the treatment	Satisfaction with the interdisciplinary team obtained by a specific designed questionnaire	3 months
Self-esteem	Assessment of the participant's self-esteem through the application of the "Rosenberg's Self-Esteem Scale"	3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul
• Collaborators: Irmandade Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre
• Investigators: Study Director: Silvia Goldmeier, PhD, Fundação Instituto de Cardiologia

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

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Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: January 1, 2016
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 1, 2016
• Study Completion (Actual): August 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 19, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 9, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): July 12, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): July 21, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 18, 2017
• Last Verified: July 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Adolescent; Education; Kidney transplantation; Facebook; Social Networking
• Other Study ID Numbers: 5259/16

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No
• IPD Plan Description: No IPD will be shared among other researchers.

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No