euromodulation in patients undergoing hemodialysis
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Chronic PainD007676
- Registration Number
- RBR-46vhrkj
- Lead Sponsor
- niversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Data analysis completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion Criteria
Age between 18 and 75 years; previous medical evaluation with clinical diagnosis of depression, anxiety, chronic pain and pressure lability and being on hemodialysis treatment
Exclusion Criteria
Evidence of any cognitive deficit (senile dementia, Alzheimer's); presence of physical and / or organic difficulties; individuals with severe cardiovascular risk or hemodynamically unstable; history of seizures or epileptic disease; pregnancy; metallic implants in the head or neck and cardiac pacemaker.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Moderate pain improvement verified by a 30% decrease in the visual analog pain scale in patients undergoing hemodialysis with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Secondary 1: Depression improvement accornding to moderate (50% of improvement) decrease scores of the Beck depression inventory in patients undergoing hemodialysis with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).;Secondary 2: Improvement of 30% or more in anxiety symptom verified by the reduction of the Hamilton Anxiety Questionnaire in patients undergoing hemodialysis with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).;Secondary 3: Clinically functionality improvement verified through decrease of more than 5 points the Kidney Disease Quality of Life questionnaire in patients undergoing hemodialysis with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS).