Improving Patient Quality of Life and Caregiver Burden by a Peer-Led Mentoring Program for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease and Their Caregivers
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 241
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Slope of Change in Zarit Caregiver Burden Interview (ZBI) Score
研究概览
简要总结
Receiving supportive mentoring from well-adjusted individuals who share similar experiences has had a positive influence on adjustment with some chronic diseases. In this study, patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and caregivers of such patients will be randomly assigned to one of three groups: (1) face-to-face PFPP-individuals will receive six months of PFPP peer-mentoring, along with an informational text; (2) online PFPP-individuals will receive six months of online peer-mentoring modeled after the PFPP program, along with an informational text; and (3) information-only control group-individuals will receive the text of the material provided to the other two groups. The study team's decision to include an online version is based on suggestions by previous participants who indicated that this would be convenient for individuals for whom distance and geographic location are major considerations of participation.
The investigators expect that both face-to-face and online peer-mentorship programs will result in improved quality of life among patients with advanced kidney disease and decreased feeling of burden among caregivers of these patients. The investigators also expect that mentorship will lead to improved engagement of patients in their own care.
详细描述
Chronic kidney disease is very common in the United States, and throughout the world. An increasing number of individuals are diagnosed with late stages of chronic kidney disease, which require treatment with either dialysis or kidney transplant. The number of individuals currently requiring such treatment in the United States is greater than 600,000. Patients with advanced kidney disease and their family members face many challenges in dealing with the disease and the decisions that relate to choice of treatment. Quite frequently, patients and their family members are faced with the need to decide on a treatment option without full awareness of all the options. In such cases, they might make choices with which they will not be satisfied. Poor satisfaction with treatment choice is likely to result in poor quality of life for the patients and increased sense of burden for the caregiver.
Receiving supportive mentoring from well-adjusted individuals who share similar experiences has had a positive influence on adjustment with some chronic diseases. Since 2004, the Kidney Foundation of Central Pennsylvania has conducted a program to formally train patients with kidney disease and their caregivers to become mentors for patients or caregivers who feel they might benefit from such mentoring. The program, the Patient and Family Partner Program (PFPP), was envisioned and designed by a patient with chronic kidney disease and has trained approximately 130 mentors.
In this study, patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and caregivers of such patients will be randomly assigned to one of three groups: (1) face-to-face PFPP-individuals will receive six months of PFPP peer-mentoring, along with an informational text; (2) online PFPP-individuals will receive six months of online peer-mentoring modeled after the PFPP program, along with an informational text; and (3) information-only control group-individuals will receive the text of the material provided to the other two groups. The study team's decision to include an online version is based on suggestions by previous participants who indicated that this would be convenient for individuals for whom distance and geographic location are major considerations of participation.
The investigators expect that both face-to-face and online peer-mentorship programs will result in improved quality of life among patients with advanced kidney disease and decreased feeling of burden among caregivers of these patients. The investigators also expect that mentorship will lead to improved engagement of patients in their own care.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 90 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Diagnosed with stage 4 or 5 CKD by a physician / or caregiver to a patient with stage 4 or 5 CKD;
- •at least 18 years of age;
- •able to read and write in English at the 8th grade level;
- •access to computer with internet and email capability
排除标准
- •inability to provide consent;
- •younger than 18 years of age;
- •prisoners
结局指标
主要结局
Slope of Change in Zarit Caregiver Burden Interview (ZBI) Score
时间窗: Measured at baseline, at 12 months and at 18 months, slope of change at 18 months reported.
The Zarit caregiver Burden Interview (ZBI) score is the primary outcome measure. The score ranges between 0 and 88. Higher scores represent increased caregiver burden (worse outcome); smaller numbers indicate less caregiver burden (better outcome). Change in the ZBI score is the outcome variable of interest. We computed the slopes (rates of change in ZBI from baseline to 12 months and 18 months) using a random effects ANOVA (random intercept and random slope), and determined if the slopes were different using t-test.
Slope of Change in Kidney Disease Quality of Life-36 Score
时间窗: Measured at baseline, at 12 months and at 18 months, slope of change at 18 months reported.
The Kidney Disease Quality of Life-36 (KDQOL-36) score is the primary outcome measure. The KDQOL-36 contains 5 subscales: the Physical Component Summary (PCS), Mental Component Summary (MCS), Burden of Kidney Disease (BKD), Symptoms and Problems of Kidney Disease (SPKD), and Effects of Kidney Disease (EKD). The range for the sore of each domain is 0-100. Higher scores represent improved Quality of Life. Change in the scores of components of the KDQOL is the outcome variable of interest. We computed the slopes (rates of change in KDQOL subscales from baseline to 12 months and 18 months) using a random effects ANOVA (random intercept and random slope), and determined if the slopes were different using t-test.
次要结局
- Slope of Change in Patient Activation Measure (PAM)(Measured at baseline, at 12 months and at 18 months, slope of change at 18 months reported.)
研究者
Nasrollah Ghahramani
Professor of Medicine
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center