Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Living Kidney Donors

Organ Donor Clinical Trial

Official title:

Randomized Trial of Financial Incentives to Increase Response Rates to a Mailed Survey of Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Living Kidney Donors

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01009125
• Other study ID #: SBMC-2009-40
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 5, 2009
• Last updated: June 8, 2010
• Start date: January 2010
• Est. completion date: April 2010

Study information

• Verified date: June 2010
• Source: St. Barnabas Medical Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a mailed survey to persons who served as living kidney donors at Saint Barnabas Medical Center. The experimental component of this study (the clinical trial) is a randomized trial of two monetary incentives for the living kidney donors invited to participate in the study. Kidney donors will be randomized to receive one of two incentives in the mailed survey packet: $2 cash vs. $5 cash. The main outcome measure is the response rate to the survey.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 600
• Est. completion date: April 2010
• Est. primary completion date: April 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Persons who donated a living donor kidney at Saint Barnabas Medical Center between January 2000 and December 2006 are eligible to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

• Current address outside the continental United States

• Persons who donated a living donor kidney prior to January 2000 or after December 2006

• Persons who indicated they no longer wished to be contacted by Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Organ Donor

Intervention

Other:
• $2 cash
$2 cash incentive will be included in the mailed survey
• $5 cash
$5 cash incentive will be included in the mailed survey

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Saint Barnabas Medical Center	Livingston	New Jersey

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
St. Barnabas Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Survey response rate		2 weeks, 2 months (primary), 4 months	No