Needs Assessment

• Consultation with stakeholders to determine optimal content
  • Literature review (March 2014 – Dec 2016)
  • Consultation with kidney transplant recipients
    • Study #1: Education before kidney transplant: What do patients need to know? 
  • Consultation with patients on the kidney transplant waitlist
    • Study #2: Health Literacy, Knowledge, and Patient Satisfaction Before Kidney Transplantation
  • Consultation with health care providers
    • Study #3: Education Before Kidney Transplantation: The Health Care Provider’s Perspective

Pre-Production/Production Phase

• Development of the series by the Creative Team (Holly, Nicola, Rahul, Azaad)
  • Collecting and archiving of patient testimonials (Paraag and team, June 2015-Dec 2016)
  • Collecting B-roll footage (Paraag and team, June 2015-Dec 2016)
  • Storyboarding and Script Writing (Aug 2015-Dec 2016)
  • Recording of Narrations (June 2016-Jan 2017)
  • Animations (Vicki and team, Dec 2016-Jan 2017)
  • Editing of the footage to develop the first draft (Azaad, Raj, Jan 2017-Aug 2017)

Post-Production Phase

• Reviews and revisions based on feedback from consultations with stakeholders
  • patients (in Saskatchewan and beyond), healthcare providers, ninth grade students (Mar 2017-Oct 2018)

Intervention testing

• Randomized controlled trials (started Summer of 2018)
  • Study 1 (A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Pre-Transplant Education Intervention)
    • Multicenter trial testing the effectiveness of the full video series (delivered electronically before transplantation) compared to usual care, on patient knowledge and other patient reported outcomes.
    • Funded by the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (SHRF) & Saskatchewan Center for Patient-Oriented Research (SCPOR)
    • Clinical trial registration: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03633136

• • Study 2 (Video Education and Behaviour Contract to Optimize Adherence in Renal Transplants, VECTOR)
    • Multicenter trial testing the effectiveness of the 3 post-transplant videos in combination with an adherence contract (delivered electronically after transplantation) compared to usual care, on adherence outcomes at 12 months after transplant.
    • Funded by the American Society of Transplantation (AST) Transplantation and Immunology Network (TIRN)
    • Clinical trial registration: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03540121
    • Transplant trial watch: https://www.transplantevidence.com/ttw.php?issue=2019-06-01

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