Supportive Educative Program on Caregiver’s in Hemodialysis patients
- Conditions
- Hemodialysis - Chronic kidney disease.Chronic kidney disease, stage 5
- Registration Number
- IRCT138809032769N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Research Assistance of Iran University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 76
Inclusion criteria for patients:
1- Age 18 to 65 years old with hemodialysis program per week (three times per week and each time, 3-4 hours).
2- Have a primary caregiver at home.
3- No previous history of renal transplant.
Inclusion criteria for caregivers:
1- caregivers should have the primary responsibility to care of the patient and should be a member of family.
2- Age more than 18 years old.
3- Have the ability to speak, read and write in farsi.
4- Do not any known mental or neurological disorder.
5-Caregivers should not be a member of medical staff.
The exclusion criteria:
1-Occurrence of stressful events in family ( divorce, financial crisis, death of the primary family members).
2-Participating in training courses related with research intervention program during the study.
3- The lack of willingness to continue participating during the study.
4-The absence of primary caregiver who receipts training even in one training session.
5-The patient should be a candidate for kidney transplant during the study.
6-Protecting other chronic patients except hemodialysis patient in the family.
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Caregiver’s Burden. Timepoint: Pre test and Six Week’s after intervention. Method of measurement: Caregiver’s Burden index.;Caregiver’s Quality of life. Timepoint: Pre test and Six Week’s after intervention. Method of measurement: Quality of life sf-36.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method