Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Living Kidney Donors

St. Barnabas Medical Center600 enrolled

Overview

This is a mailed survey to persons who served as living kidney donors at Saint Barnabas Medical Center. The experimental component of this study (the clinical trial) is a randomized trial of two monetary incentives for the living kidney donors invited to participate in the study. Kidney donors will be randomized to receive one of two incentives in the mailed survey packet: $2 cash vs. $5 cash. The main outcome measure is the response rate to the survey.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

600

Conditions

Organ Donor

Interventions

$2 cashOTHER

$2 cash incentive will be included in the mailed survey

$5 cashOTHER

$5 cash incentive will be included in the mailed survey

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Persons who donated a living donor kidney at Saint Barnabas Medical Center between January 2000 and December 2006 are eligible to participate Exclusion Criteria: * Current address outside the continental United States * Persons who donated a living donor kidney prior to January 2000 or after December 2006 * Persons who indicated they no longer wished to be contacted by Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Locations (1)

Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Livingston, New Jersey, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Survey response rate

Time frame: 2 weeks, 2 months (primary), 4 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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