Kidney Transplant PREM Development V1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Development and content validation of a patient reported experience measure (PREM) for kidney transplantation
IRAS ID
333269
Contact name
Rebeka Jenkins
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
NHS Blood and Transplant
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 6 months, 1 days
Research summary
This study represents the first phase of creating a Patient-Reported Experience Measure for kidney transplantation. These are sometimes called "PREM" for short. a PREM is a kind of survey that collects feedback from patients as a measure of the patient experience of healthcare. It gathers the patient’s perspective of their medical care, what happened, when, how, and how that felt about it. This study aims to develop and test a PREM for kidney transplantation with input from patients and healthcare professionals. Firstly, people who have had a kidney transplant within the last two years will be interviewed to explore their experience of transplant care (Part 1). These interviews will be analysed altogether to draw out themes. These themes will be used to write a draft PREM, with input from an expert panel of health care professionals, researchers, and patient and public contributors. The draft PREM will then be tested by asking kidney transplant patients to complete whilst voicing their thoughts in a second set of interviews (Part 2). Here, the PREM will be tested to see if it is easily understood, asks all the important things, and does not ask about things that are not relevant. Additionally, the PREM will be tested with a range of healthcare professionals who work in kidney transplantation in focus groups. Here they will check they think the questions are relevant and no important questions are missing. The feedback from both the patient and professional testing will be used to improve the PREM further. By the end of the study we aim to have a PREM ready for subsequent "real-world pilot" test in the next phase of research.
REC name
Social Care REC
REC reference
24/IEC08/0006
Date of REC Opinion
7 Feb 2024
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion