NCT03214965

The Use of the Social Networking to Promote Educational and Consultative Actions Among Kidney Transplanted Adolescents.

The Use of the Social Networking to Promote Educational and Consultative Actions Among Kidney Transplanted Adolescents. Comparison of the Knowledge, Satisfaction and Self-esteem Between Two Groups: a Randomized Clinical Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 128 (actual)
• Sponsor: Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is designed to compare the knowledge, satisfaction and self-esteem of kidney transplanted adolescents measured through questionnaires between two groups: patients undergoing conventional treatment with no other intervention versus patients undergoing conventional treatment and receiving additional educational and consultative actions using a closed facebook group.

Detailed description

Based on literature, there are strong evidences that the use of social media improves the outcomes of chronic treatments. Currently, there is no study using social media as an education tool in kidney transplant patients in Brazil. This study is designed to answer the question: "Does the use of a popular social media such as facebook improves the knowledge, satisfaction and self-steem levels among kidney transplant adolescents when compared with their peers ?" This is a non-blinded randomized clinical trial. Patients will be randomly included into one of the two groups: the control group who will not receive any intervention or the facebook group (who will receive additional educational and consultative support through a closed facebook group) After three months, knowledge level, satisfaction level and self-esteem will be assessed by specific designed questionnaires and by the application of the Rosenberg's self-esteem scale. The study will have a sample of 122 subjects, equally divided (61 participants in each group). Collected data will be compared using the chi square test.

Conditions

• Kidney Transplantation
• Education

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Facebook group	A closed facebook group used to deliver multimedia content specifically produced to inform the participants about chronic kidney disease, kidney transplantation and related topics. This group is also used to share doubts and life experiences among participants and the interdisciplinary team.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-03-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2017-07-12
• Last updated: 2017-07-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil