The effect of family empowerment on the treatment adherence in hemodialysis patients
- Conditions
- Hemodialysis patients.Care involving dialysis
- Registration Number
- IRCT2015102824758N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice chancellor for research of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 84
Inclusion criteria for patient and family active member: Willing to participate in the study; Age range 18 years and over; Reading and writing ability; Listening and speaking ability and acceptable consciousness to communicate; Lack of mental illness and cognitive impairment; Lack of participate in formal training sessions in the field of empowerment and treatment adherence at the same time; The weak or moderate score of empowerment evaluation questionnaire
Inclusion criteria for patient: Suffering of chronic renal failure and treatment with hemodialysis for at least six months; Three hemodialysis sessions in week and each session lasting 3-4 hours; Lack of other chronic disease; The weak or moderate score of treatment adherence questionnaire; Lack of physical limitations for self-care
Exclusion criteria for patient: Kidney transplant; Peritoneal dialysis or death during the study
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Treatment adherence. Timepoint: Before intervention- One month after the completion of the empowerment evaluation questionnaire. Method of measurement: Researcher made questionnaire.;Empowerment. Timepoint: Before intervention- One week after intervention. Method of measurement: Researcher made questionnaire.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method aboratory and clinical indicators. Timepoint: Before intervention- After intervention. Method of measurement: Checklist for record laboratory and clinical indicators.