Clinical trial NCT06555718: Peer Support Program in Chronic Kidney Patient
Official title: Examining the Effect of the Peer Support Program Applied to Chronic Kidney Patients on Care Outcomes
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Peer Review
Hemodialysis Complication
Nurse's Role
Health-Related Behavior
Keywords: Peer sport
nursing
hemodialysis
Lead sponsor: Acibadem University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2024-08-15
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: The study will start after obtaining official institutional permissions. The researcher will examine the profile of patients receiving treatment at the dialysis center. After this stage, the following steps will be followed
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: The main advantage of patient-to-patient peer counseling is that it benefits both the client and the peer mentors as real and authentic experiences are shared. Since both individuals go through similar experiences, they can share common feelings. Although there are studies in the literature showing the effectiveness of peer support groups in different patient groups, studies on chronic kidney disease patients are limited. There are no studies on the effects of these programs on caregivers. This study will be conducted to examine the effects of peer support program applied to chronic kidney patients on patient outcomes and caregivers.

Detailed description: This study was planned to be conducted with a randomized controlled experimental design to examine the effect of the peer support program applied to Chronic Kidney patients on patient outcomes and caregivers.

Patients diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease and receiving haemodialysis (HD) as a renal replacement method constitute the population of the study. In the a priori power analysis performed to calculate the number of subjects, the effect size was taken as 1.3 (d) based on reference studies. Accordingly, it was found that 34 subjects should be included in the calculation for the independent two-sample t-test according to 0.95 power and 0.05 alpha. The sample of the study will consist of 25 intervention and 25 control CKDs who fulfil the inclusion criteria, taking into account the dropout status.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria For Peer Mentor Inclusion Criteria;

* Speaking Turkish
* To be literate
* CKD receiving haemodialysis
* Volunteering
* 18 years of age or older
* Being open to communication and co-operation
* Not having any psychiatric disorder

For Patient Inclusion Criteria;

* Speaking Turkish
* To be literate
* CKD receiving haemodialysis
* Volunteering
* 18 years of age or older
* Not having any psychiatric disorder

Exclusion criteria for all participants

* Being under 18 years of age
* Speaking a language other than Turkish
* Not being able to use a telephone

Losses to follow-up

* Experiencing incompatibility with the second peer mentor or client with whom they are paired for peer mentor and peer client
* Death during the period of intervention or follow-up
* Withdrawal of patient consent
* Clinical problems or difficulties attending appointments that hinder follow-up

Primary outcomes:
measure: Adaptation to the disease.
timeFrame: The scale will be completed before the intervention and at 3, 7 and 9 weeks.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Self-Care
timeFrame: The scale will be completed before the intervention and at 3, 7 and 9 weeks.
Other outcomes:
measure: Patient outcomes
timeFrame: The Kt/V value of all patients calculated before the intervention and the change in the value measured 3, 7 and 9 weeks after the intervention will be completed by the researcher.
measure: Caregivers on Care Burden
timeFrame: The scale will be completed by the patients before the intervention and at 9th week.
Locations:
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Canan Yüksel Acar
Study officials:
affiliation: Acibadem Universty
name: Canan Yüksel Acar, Msc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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