Is There a Digital Divide in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)?

Individuals with CKD are at risk for adverse safety events, yet little is known regarding the
utility of health information technology (IT) educational tools to reduce these events. The
results of this project will be invaluable in gaining a better understanding of the
limitations and potential for use of a patient-centered mHealth patient safety educational
intervention in high-risk individuals with CKD.

The study will evaluate the perceived eHealth literacy of patients with CKD and its relation
to medication errors in the CRIC cohort. The hypothesis is that a novel mHealth-based patient
safety curriculum designed to address a wide-range of e-literacy will be effective in
attenuating the identified Digital Divide adversely affecting many CKD patients, and will
reduce adverse safety events common in this population.

Study Aims:

1. Examine the association between surveyed perceived e-literacy and medication errors in
individuals with CKD

Hypothesis 1: Medication error rates will be higher among CRIC participants with low
eHealth literacy.

2. Assess the acceptance and feasibility of a novel mHealth-based patient safety curriculum
to improve patient safety risk knowledge among individuals with CKD and determine its
efficacy in increasing patient safety risk awareness.

Hypothesis 2a: A low literacy mHealth patient safety curriculum will improve patient safety
risk awareness among high risk individuals with CKD.

Hypothesis 2b: Medication error rates will be higher among CRIC participants with low patient
safety risk awareness.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Enrolled in Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Not enrolled in Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) Study.