Intensive Patient Referral and Education Program Prior to Renal Replacement Therapy

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

Intensive Patient Referral and Education Program prior to Renal Replacement Therapy (iPREP-RRT) is a 12-week intervention that identifies hospitalized African Americans with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) and provides them with hospital- and community-based education, navigation and self-management support. Participants will be randomized to the iPREP-RRT intervention versus enhanced usual care.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Maximum Age: 70
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• Patients over the age of 18 and under 70

• Admitted to the University of Chicago inpatient general medicine service

• Likely hospital stay greater than 48 hours

• Diagnosis of advanced CKD (Stage 3B or above, as determine by problem list, ICD- 10 codes or eGFR\<45 during admission and from previous medical encounters)

• Self-identify as Black or African American

Locations
United States
Illinois
University of Chicago Medical Center
RECRUITING
Chicago
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-09-04
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-12
Participants
Target number of participants: 185
Treatments
Experimental: Intensive Intervention (iPREP RRT)
The intervention is administered by a patient educator (PE), a culturally concordant health educator. S/he will review the CKD and RRT education materials on a tablet device with the participant, answer any questions they have, and using motivational interviewing techniques get a commitment for future action. The participant and the patient educator will work together to decide on potential CKD self-management and RRT options and/or next steps. The PE will teach the participant how to use the home blood pressure monitor and will leave it with the participant.~The patient educator will check in with the participant through text messages and follow-up phone calls.
Placebo_comparator: Enhanced Usual Care
The enhanced usual care is administered by a patient educator (PE), a culturally concordant health educator. The PE will drop off written general health education materials.~The patient educator will check in with the participant through text messages.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
Leads: University of Chicago

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