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. 2022 Sep 21;12(9):e055248. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055248

Table 10.

Overview of interventions currently under development or investigation

Intervention Type of intervention Format Treatment options* Values-clarification/preference elicitation exercise(s) Coaching Promotes treatment modality
What type of dialysis modality?
No. 1:
Web-based Interactive Health Communication Application for successful Home Dialysis (WISHED)		 EP Interactive application (n.a.)

  1. PD

  2. HD; in-centre

  3. HD; home

 No No Home dialysis
No. 2:
Chronic Kidney Disease Enhanced Dialysis Education		 EP Multiple sessions of individual education and coaching with coaches (n.a.) Dialysis No Yes No
No. 3:
decision support intervention		 MI

  1. Multiple outpatient consultations with clinicians (n.a.)

  2. Multiple sessions of individual education with educator (n.a.)

  3. Decision aids (n.a.)

  1. PD

  2. HD

 Yes Yes No
No. 4:
comprehensive preESRD patient education		 EP Three sessions of individual education with educators (n.a.)

  1. PD

  2. HD; home

  3. HD; in-centre

 No No Home dialysis modalities
Pursue LDKT or not?
No. 5:
house calls educational intervention		 EP

  1. Multiple outpatient consultations with clinicians (n.a.)

  2. Printed materials (pamphlets, brochures, booklets)

  3. One DVD (n.a.)

  4. Optional session of group education health educator (60–90 min)

  5. Optional home visit by health educator (60–90 min)

  6. Optional session of outpatient individual education with health educator (60–90 min)

  1. DDKT

  2. LDKT

 No Yes LDKT
No. 6:
house calls+web-based decision support		 MI

  1. Multiple outpatient consultations with clinicians (n.a.)

  2. Printed materials (pamphlets, brochures, booklets)

  3. One DVD (n.a.)

  4. One home visit by health educator (60–90 min)

  5. Web-based decision support (interactive website)

  1. DDKT

  2. LDKT

 Yes Yes LDKT
No. 7:
house calls+peer mentorship		 EP

  1. Multiple outpatient consultations with clinicians (n.a.)

  2. Printed materials (pamphlets, brochures, booklets)

  3. One DVD (n.a.)

  4. One home visit by health educators (60–90 min)

  5. Peer mentorship (n.a.)

  1. DDKT

  2. LDKT

 No Yes LDKT
No. 8:
destination transplant		 EP

  1. One session of group education (60–90 min)

  2. Printed materials (explore transplant fact sheets, postcards)

  3. One phone call with transplant educator (n.a.)

  4. Optional additional printed material (booklet)

  1. DDKT

  2. LDKT

 No Yes LDKT
No. 9:
Talking about Live Kidney Donation (TALK)		 EP

  1. Multiple outpatient consultations with clinicians (n.a.)

  2. One video (20 min)

  3. Printed material (booklet)

  4. Two home visits by social workers (1 hour total)

 LDKT No Yes LDKT
No. 10:
communicating about choices in transplantation		 EP

  1. One session of group education (3 hours)

  2. Videos (n.a.)

  1. DDKT

  2. LDKT

 No No LDKT
No. 11:
Living About Choices in Transplantation and Sharing (ACTS)—website		 EP

  1. Website

  2. Five videos (25 min total)

 LDKT No No LDKT
Dialysis or CCM?
No. 12:
Decision Aid for Renal Therapy (DART)		 PtDA Interactive website

  1. Dialysis

  2. CCM

 Yes No No
No. 13:
decision aid for elderly patients with kidney failure		 PtDA

  1. One video (18 min)

  2. Printed material (booklet)

  1. PD

  2. HD; in-centre

  3. CCM

 Yes No No
Transplantation, dialysis or CCM?
No. 14:
Patient-centred kidney transition care		 MI

  1. Electronic health information tools (disease registry, care navigation and tracking tool, treatment preferences broadcast)

  2. Multiple outpatient consultations with kidney transitions specialist (n.a.)

  3. PREPARED PtDA

  4. Eight-variable KFRE

  1. PD

  2. HD; in-centre

  3. HD; home

  4. DDKT

  5. LDKT

  6. CCM

 Yes Yes No
What type of transplantation?
No. 15:
Enhance Access to Kidney Transplantation and Living Kidney Donation		 MI

  1. Data collection and reports

  2. Education toolkits for CKD programme staff, patients and families

  3. Transplant ambassadors (n.a.)

  4. Provincial administrative support and resources

 Kidney transplantation No No Kidney transplantation
No. 16:
Explore transplant at home		 EP

  1. Printed materials (fact sheets, brochures, postcards)

  2. Four videos (20 min total)

  3. Optional educational text messages

  1. DDKT

  2. LDKT

 Yes No No

*Treatment options formulated as reported in the identified records.

CCM, Conservative Care Management; DDKT, Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation; EP, Educational Programme; ESRD, End-Stage Renal Disease; HD, haemodialysis; KFRE, Kidney Failure Risk Equation; LDKT, Living Donor Kidney Transplantation; MI, Multicomponent Initiative; PD, Peritoneal Dialysis; PtDA, Patient Decision Aid.