Phone calls and booklets may save transplanted kidneys
NCT ID NCT07364123
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This study tests whether a nurse-led program of education and telephone counseling can help kidney transplant recipients take their anti-rejection medications more consistently. Sixty adult patients will be randomly assigned to either the program or standard care. The goal is to see if this simple support improves medication adherence and, ultimately, helps protect the transplanted kidney.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Education and telephone counseling program
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could point toward a simple, low-cost way to help kidney transplant patients take their anti-rejection medications consistently, potentially reducing graft loss.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study with only 60 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The intervention is behavioral, so its effect may be modest or hard to sustain long-term.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 60 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Jan 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Aug 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 70 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult kidney transplant recipients aged 18 years or older * At least 1 month post-kidney transplantation * Able to provide informed consent * Cognitively intact and oriented to person, place, and time * Able to communicate via telephone * Voluntarily willing to participate in the study Exclusion Criteria: * Under 18 years of age * Severe cognitive impairment preventing participation * Inability to communicate effectively (hearing or speech limitations without support) * Patients who do not meet the post-transplant time threshold (less than 1 month) * Patients unwilling or unable to participate in follow-up sessions
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Gaziantep University Sahinbey Research and Application Hospital
Gaziantep, Şehitkamil, 27310, Turkey (Türkiye)
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