eHealth Usability in Living Kidney Donation

Living Kidney Donation Clinical Trial

Official title:

USABILITY OF AN INTERACTIVE HEALTH TECHNOLOGY FOR KIDNEY LIVING DONORS ASSESSMENT: TOWARDS A STANDARDIZED INFORMED PROCESS

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04791670
• Other study ID #: eHealth/HUS/501
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Start date: March 2021
• Est. completion date: October 2021

Study information

• Verified date: March 2021
• Source: Helsinki University Central Hospital
• Contact: Fernanda Ortiz, PhD, MD
• Phone: +358504270795
• Email: fernanda.ortiz[@]hus.fi
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Several web portals for patients are available, but an assessment of their performance is scarce. This is of particular interest among candidates for kidney living donation. A crucial aspect of living donation is to provide standardized information about the risks of the procedure. In 2019 it was launched a personalized digital care path for kidney living candidates, which contains information about the donation process and facilitates the communication between clinicians, transplant coordinators, and patients, enabling telemedicine.

We aim to investigate living donor candidates' experience with the Health Village web portal and the digital care path for living donor candidates. The secondary aim is to investigate their attitude of living donor candidates to eHealth services.

Description:

Background. Several web portals for kidney patients are available, but an assessment of their performance is scarce. This is of particular interest among candidates for kidney living donation. A crucial aspect of living donation is to provide standardized information about the risks of the procedure. In Finland, the web portal Health Village contains general information about kidney diseases. In 2019 it was launched a personalized digital care path for kidney living candidates, which contains information about the donation process and facilitates the communication between clinicians, transplant coordinators, and patients, enabling telemedicine. The performance of this eHealth service has not yet been studied.

Objectives. to investigate living donor candidates' experience with the web portal Health Village and the digital care path for living donor candidates. The secondary aim is to investigate their attitude of living donor candidates to eHealth services.

Methods. A prospective cross sectional survey study. Participants will be all kidney donor candidates who have used the digital care path since its implementation in January 2019 up to 1.3.2021 (N=122). The surveys will include general data, the type of electronic devices in possession and the purpose of use. eHealth literacy will be assessed with the eHeals questionnaire. Platform's ease of use will be assessed with the System Usability Scale, and participants´ opinion about the digital path utility with six questions. These items will be answered with a Likert-scale. Finally, we added an open question for qualitative analysis.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 122
• Est. completion date: October 2021
• Est. primary completion date: May 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Living donor candidates from Helsinki area, from 2019 onwards

Exclusion Criteria:

• Living donor candidates from other areas of the country

• non-Finnish speakers

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Living Kidney Donation

Intervention

Other:
• survey study
The surveys will include general data, the type of electronic devices in possession and the purpose of use. eHealth literacy will be assessed with the eHeals questionnaire. Platform's ease of use will be assessed with the System Usability Scale, and participants´ opinion about the digital path utility with six questions. These items will be answered with a Likert-scale. Finally, we added an open question for qualitative analysis.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Helsinki University Central Hospital	University of Oulu

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Patient´s experience	Measured with Likert scale	4 months
Primary	Patient´s e-Health literature	Measured with Likert scale	4 months
Secondary	Gender differences	to assess gender differences in the use of eHealth	4 months