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Clinical Trials/ISRCTN12840463
ISRCTN12840463Completed未知

nderstanding frailty, falls and the role of exercise in haemodialysis patients: A qualitative study (FLEX-HD)

niversity of Leicester0 sites30 target enrollmentStarted: May 11, 2017Last updated:
Conditions

Trial Snapshot

Phase
未知
Status
Completed
Sponsor
Enrollment
30

Study Overview

Brief Summary

2022 Interim results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35869436/ Participants' perceptions of frailty (added 25/07/2022)

Study Design

Study Type
Observational

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
All

Inclusion Criteria

  • •1. Be a prevalent haemodialysis patient (receiving HD for 3 months or greater)
  • •2. Age 18 years or older
  • •3. Clinically stable at the time of recruitment
  • •4. Able and willing to give informed consent
  • •5. History of falls in the last 6 months or high risk of falls

Exclusion Criteria

  • •1. Unable or unwilling to give informed consent
  • •2. Patients who are unable to understand, read or speak English
  • •3. Unable to participate in an exercise due to perceived physical or psychological barriers
  • •4. Unfit to undertake exercise or exercise testing according to the American College of Sports Medicine guidelines and as determined by the patient's Consultant Nephrologist including:
  • •4.1. Significant ischaemia, recent myocardial infarction (2 weeks) or other acute cardiac event
  • •4.2. Unstable angina
  • •4.3. Uncontrolled cardiac dysrhythmias causing symptoms or haemodynamic compromise
  • •4.4. Symptomatic severe aortic stenosis
  • •4.5. Uncontrolled symptomatic heart failure
  • •4.6. Acute pulmonary embolus or pulmonary infarction
  • •4.7. Acute myocarditis or pericarditis
  • •4.8. Suspected or known dissecting aneurysm
  • •4.9. Acute systemic infection, accompanied by fever, body aches or swollen lymph glands

Investigators

Sponsor
niversity of Leicester

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