14 18 Third, and perhaps most importantly, the interventions previously trialled have comprised one-off educational activities with the issue of videos, booklets or brochures to patients for subsequent personal use.
A letter accompanying the video and booklet will encourage patient participants to review the 20-min TALK video and booklet and to attend meetings with a study social worker to receive the TALK SWI.
We will also ask patient participants about their perceptions of the video and booklet.
Study staff will mail the TALK video and booklet to patient participants randomly assigned to the TALKS Program and TALKS Plus Program study arms.
(Table 3) For patient participants assigned to the TALK and TALK-Plus groups, we also assess their perceptions of the helpfulness of the video and booklet.
The TALK SWI educational component consists of a 20-min video and booklet that are designed for patients and their families to review alone or together prior to a visit with the TALK Social Worker.
If patient participants are randomly assigned to the TALKS Plus Program study arm, study staff will also mail information about the live donor financial assistance intervention along with the TALK video and booklet.
The video and booklet were both screened by African American and non-African American patients and families prior to final production and their input was incorporated into the final interventions.
