Exploring the Impact of  ACP Board Game for Life on Death Preparation and Anxiety in Patients With Stage 4 and 5 Chronic Kidney Diseases: A Pilot Study

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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This study was to explore the impacts of participating in ACP board game for life on death preparation, death anxiety, end-of-life care preferences, and intervention perception in stage 4-5 CKD patients with advanced chronic kidney diseases in a medical center.

Detailed Description
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This study was to explore the impacts of participating in ACP board game for life on death preparation, death anxiety, end-of-life care preferences, and intervention perception in stage 4-5 CKD patients with advanced chronic kidney diseases in a medical center. A nonrandomized two-arm pretest and posttest quasi-experimental design was used. Patients in the control group received routine care while patients in the experimental group received routine care and ACP board game for life. The ACP board game, death preparation subscale, Chinese Likert death anxiety scale, self-created questionnaires and brief interview were used for data collection.

Official Title
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Exploring the Impact of  ACP Board Game for Life on Death Preparation and Anxiety in Patients With Stage 4 and 5 Chronic Kidney Diseases: A Pilot Study

Conditions
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Chronic Kidney Disease, Chronic Renal Failure, Chronic Renal Insufficiency, End of Life Care, Advance Care Planning, Death Anxiety

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: ACP board game for life


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Stage 4-5 chronic kidney disease patients Chinese nationality Over 20 years old Consciousness clear, can communicate and express their opinions in Mandarin and Taiwanese Exclusion Criteria: Patients express that talking about death makes them feel scared or cause anxiety The doctor assesses that the patient's condition is in the stage of septic shock, hemodynamic instability, asthma, pulmonary edema, hypoxemia or acute myocardial infarction Patients with contact or airborne precautions Patients without legal capacity

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 21 Years
Maximum Age: 78 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Other
Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: General routine care and ACP board game for life<br> | Other: ACP board game for life<br>* The research subjects will be assigned to the experimental group or the control group according to their wishes. Those who are willing to participate the ACP board game will be assigned to the experimental group. The intervention time for each board game is around 2 hours. There are 60 cards in this ACP board game; the focus of the game is to know the participants' thoughts on the card options. Questionnaires need to be filled in before and after intervention.<br>|
| No Intervention: General routine care<br>General routine care means that when a CKD stage 4-5 patient is in critical condition or at the end of life, the renal medical team will explain the content of DNR to the patient's family (without cardiopulmonary resuscitation: including endotracheal tube intubation, extracorporeal cardiac compression, Emergency treatment items such as cardiac electric shock, emergency drug injection, and artificial cardiac pacemaker adjustment), the concept of palliative care (supportive care for end-of-life patients to relieve physical discomfort symptoms to reduce physical, mental and spiritual pain) or ACP. | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Death Preparation | The death preparation subscale total of 8 items measure death preparation.The range of total scores of the subscale is 8-40. It shows that the higher scores, the better death preparedness. | 2hours | 
| Death Anxiety | The Chinese Likert death anxiety scale was used, with a total of 15 items, using a Likert scale of 1 to 5 (1 means completely disagree, 2 means disagree, 3 means fair, 4 means agree, and 5 means completely agree) ), the total scores of the scale ranges from 15 to 75. The higher total scores, the higher degree of death anxiety. | 2hours | 
| End-of-Life Care Preferences | A self-made questionnaire on end-of-life care preferences for patients with stage 4-5 CKD was used. There were 2 items in the scale. The item type was multiple choice, the scoring method is based on the number of times and percentages chosen by the participants. | 2hours | 
| Intervention Perception | A self-made questionnaire on the feelings of CKD stage 4-5 patients after participating in the  ACP board game for life  was used. There are 4 items in the scale, using a Likert scoring method of 1 to 5 points (1 point means completely disagree, 2 points means disagree, 3 points means neither agree nor disagree, 4 points means agree, 5 points means strongly agree), the scoring method is based on the participant's options for Mean±SD, frequency and percentage statistics. | 2hours | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Death Preparation, Chronic Kidney Disease, Death Anxiety, Advance Care Planning, Board Game