Dissemination of the Donor Application: Utilizing Social Media to Identify Potential Live Organ Donors
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- End Stage Liver Disease
- End Stage Renal Disease
- Type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Design
- Allocation: N/AIntervention Model: Single Group AssignmentIntervention Model Description: All participants will be invited to use the Donor App.Masking: None (Open Label)Primary Purpose: Other
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 18 years and 125 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
Barriers to identifying a live donor include lack of education and hesitance to initiate a conversation about live donation. For these reasons, many transplant candidates are hesitant to discuss candidate's illness and are therefore reluctant to pursue live donor transplantation. The investigators h...
Barriers to identifying a live donor include lack of education and hesitance to initiate a conversation about live donation. For these reasons, many transplant candidates are hesitant to discuss candidate's illness and are therefore reluctant to pursue live donor transplantation. The investigators hypothesize that utilization of social media to spread awareness about candidate's illness and candidate's need for a live donor will enable many transplant candidates to successfully identify live donors. In this study, participants will use a novel web-based application, called the "Donor App", to create and share candidate's story via Facebook and other social networks to assist in the search for a live donor.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT03803423
- Collaborators
- MaineHealth
- Washington University School of Medicine
- Scripps Health
- Yale University
- Rush University Medical Center
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Andrew Cameron, MD PhD Johns Hopkins University
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