Using Social Media for the Promotion of Education and Consultation in Adolescents Who Have Undergone Kidney Transplant: Protocol for a Randomized Control Trial
Initiatives
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The goal of our research is to compare the knowledge, satisfaction, and self-esteem of adolescent renal transplant patients in 2 groups: patients undergoing conventional treatment versus patients undergoing conventional treatment plus the full-time use of social networks to aid in education and consultation.
Note: All published information has been collected from the article referenced in the Marker Paper box below. Therefore, there may be variations with more advanced versions of the study.
- Start Year
- 2016
- End Year
- 2016
- Funding
- Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul
Design
- Study design
- Clinical trial cohort
Marker Paper
Pase C, Mathias AD, Garcia CD, Garcia Rodrigues C. Using Social Media for the Promotion of Education and Consultation in Adolescents Who Have Undergone Kidney Transplant: Protocol for a Randomized Control Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2018;7(1):e3. Published 2018 Jan 9. doi:10.2196/resprot.8065
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Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 128
- Number of participants with biosamples
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Timeline
adolescents
Nonblind randomized clinical trial with 128 adolescents (aged 13 to 21 years) divided in 2 groups: the first group will receive conventional care and the second group will be invited to participate in a secret group on the social network Facebook.
Selection Criteria
- Minimum age
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13
- Maximum age
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21
- Newborns
- Twins
- Countries
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- Brazil
- Ethnic Origin
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- Health Status
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- patients receiving follow up care by the transplant interdisciplinary team either in the pre or in the post transplant period
Recruitment
- Sources of recruitment
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- General population
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 135
- Number of participants with biosamples
Data Collection Event
Nonblind randomized clinical trial with 128 adolescents (aged 13 to 21 years) divided in 2 groups: the first group will receive conventional care and the second group will be invited to participate in a secret group on the social network Facebook.
- Start Date
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2016-01
- End Date
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2016-08
- Data sources
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Social media
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Social media