NCT04854564

Identifying Perceived Barriers and Facilitators Toward a Liver Transplantation Prehabilitation

Identifying Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Inform the Development of a Liver Transplantation Prehabilitation Intervention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 114 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years – 74 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to formally identify patient and caregiver perceived needs, barriers, and facilitators to inform the development of a home-based multimodal prehabilitation program for potential LT candidates.

Detailed description

After being informed about the study and potential risks, all participants (patients and caregivers) giving written informed consent will be invited to participate in one of three research activities: interviews (n=10), nominal group technique meetings (n=64), or card-sorting and rating survey (n=40).

Conditions

• Liver Transplant; Complications

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Prehabilitation intervention	The investigators will identify participants' perceived important information to develop a prehabilitation intervention in this study. Prehabilitation intervention consisting of physical activities, nutrition, and stress management.
BEHAVIORAL	Caregiver intervention	The investigators will provide caregivers with variety of educational resources for patients experiencing ESLD.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-08-01
• Primary completion: 2023-04-25
• Completion: 2023-04-28
• First posted: 2021-04-22
• Last updated: 2023-05-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States