NCT04253548

iPeer2Peer Pediatric Thoracic Transplantation

Implementation and Effectiveness Evaluation of the iPeer2Peer Support Mentorship Program Within Pediatric Thoracic Transplantation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: The Hospital for Sick Children · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

With the on-going presence of a chronic illness, daily immunosuppressive medications, and the need for continuous medical supervision, pediatric transplant recipients face considerable psychosocial stresses. Treatment nonadherence is a major issue in pediatric transplantation and can lead to increased rates of hospitalization, rejection episodes, graft loss and death. An online peer support mentorship program (iPeer2Peer) is proposed as one intervention that could enhance patient care management, increase treatment adherence, reduce social isolation and improve health outcomes for this highly vulnerable population. The proposed trial will determine 1) implementation outcomes of the iPeer2Peer intervention in terms of: (a) feasibility and adoption, (b) acceptability and appropriateness and (c) level of engagement with the program, and 2) effectiveness of the iPeer2Peer intervention on improving health outcomes including disease self-management skills, treatment adherence, quality of life, perceived social support, stress and coping.

Conditions

• Solid Organ Transplant

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	iPeer2Peer Support Mentorship Program	iPeer2Peer is an online peer support mentorship program that has been established in multiple chronic disease populations as a self-management intervention, including chronic pain and juvenile idiopathic arthritis. The iPeer2Peer program provides modeling and reinforcement by pre-screened and trained young adult peer mentors to adolescent mentees.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-20
• Primary completion: 2023-08-31
• Completion: 2023-08-31
• First posted: 2020-02-05
• Last updated: 2023-12-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada