NCT01398488

Patient Education After Lung Transplantation Via Tablet Computers Versus Conventional Education

Patient Education After Lung Transplantation Via Tablet Computers Versus Conventional Education - a Randomized Open Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 64 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hannover Medical School · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Experimental intervention: Patient education after lung transplantation via Tablet computers. An electronic patient questionnaire via tablet computer will be collected in addition. Control intervention: Conventional Patient education by health care professionals. A paper-based patient questionnaire will be provided.

Detailed description

Noncompliance with immunosuppressive medications after organ transplantation is thought to be a leading cause of allograft rejection, graft loss, and death. Immunosuppressant medy to prevent graft rejection after lung transplantation. Reported non-compliance rates with calcineurin inhibitors are ranging between 13 and 22 % after lung transplantation. Incidence of non-compliance increases over time after transplantation. Increased health care costs, decreased quality of life, and organ failure (incl. the need for re-do transplantation) are possible consequences of immunosuppressant noncompliance. Therefore, medication compliance defined as the extent to which a patient's medication taking behaviour coincides with the prescribed regimen, is a critical issue in transplantation. Repeated patient education is one option to overcome non-adherence and immunosuppressive medication non-compliance. Immunosuppressive therapy is monitored by measurement of drug levels. Fluctuating drug levels increase the risk for rejection and drug toxicities. In addition, frequent dose adjustments, case management and frequent monitoring of drug levels are cost-intensive.

Conditions

• Lung Transplantation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Patient education	Patient education by health care professional compared to education via tablet PC

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-07-01
• Primary completion: 2012-07-01
• Completion: 2013-05-01
• First posted: 2011-07-20
• Last updated: 2013-06-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany