Recovery Time and Affecting Factors in Hemodialysis Patients

Completed

• Conditions: Life Quality; Dialysis; Complications

• Registration Number: NCT04274556
• Lead Sponsor: Istanbul Demiroglu Bilim University

Brief Summary

Patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) can experience symptoms such as lassitude, pain, muscle cramps, nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea, rash, skin dryness, sleep disorders, and emotional and sexual problems after the treatment. Many chronic HD patients do not feel well after the treatment sessions and need some time to recover. This recovery time is defined as the time required to recover from the feelings of lassitude and fatigue.

Detailed Description

The recovery time not only decreases the quality of life but also increases the risk of mortality and morbidity. As a prolonged recovery time affects both the patients and the healthcare professionals and caregivers, there has been increased interest on determining the modifiable treatment-related factors in the international literature. The patients are limited in their daily living activities at home and at work during this period and a significant amount of time is therefore required to go back to normal life.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2019-06-01
• Primary Completion: 2019-07-30
• Study Completion: 2019-12-01
• Study First Submitted: 2020-02-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-02-17
• Study First Posted: 2020-02-18
• Results First Submitted: 2020-03-18
• Results First Submitted QC: 2020-05-12
• Results First Posted: 2020-05-21
• Status Verified: 2021-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-03-19
• Last Update Posted: 2021-04-19

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 86

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 years or older
• Being on HD for 4 hours a day on 3 days per week for at least 6 months
• No communication problem
• Volunteering to participate to the study

Exclusion Criteria

• Younger than 18 years
• Shorter being on HD for 4 hours a day on 3 days per week for at least 6 months
• Have communication problem
• Not volunteering to participate to the study

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Post-dialysis Recovery Time	Up to 7 days	Before the hemodialysis session, the patients were asked by the investigators how long it took them to recover from a dialysis session, taking the last treatment month into account.
Number of Participants With Intradialytic Hypotension	Up to 7 days	It is defined in the European Best Practice Guideline (EBPG) as a decrease of 20 mmHg or more in the systolic blood pressure or 10 mmHg or more in the mean arterial blood pressure together with symptoms requiring nursing intervention.
Rate of Dialysis Symptoms	Up to 7 days	It was identified with Dialysis Symptom Index (DSI). DSI consists of 30 items. We queried the subjects regarding symptoms in the last 7 days. The effect was evaluated with a Likert type scale from 0 to 4, representing "not at all" to "significantly". The total score of the DSI ranges from 0 to 150. A score of zero reflects no symptoms while increasing total scores reflect increasing effects of the symptoms.

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Demiroglu Bilim University; 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Turkey

Demiroglu Bİlim University; 🇹🇷 Istanbul, Sisli, Turkey