Assessing Patient-Reported Experience of Care for Home Dialysis (ASPIRED)

Satellite Healthcare

Status: Completed

Conditions: End Stage Renal Disease; Home Dialysis

Treatments: Other: Survey using "Your Home Dialysis Care Experience" tool.

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04435873

SP124 Home Experience

Details and patient eligibility

About

Home dialysis modalities, including peritoneal dialysis (PD) and home hemodialysis (HHD), represent alternatives to conventional in-center hemodialysis (HD) that for some patients may be better aligned with preferences regarding the integration of dialysis treatments into their lives. Assessment of patient experience and satisfaction with care among individuals undergoing maintenance dialysis in the United States is a national health care priority and mandated by Congress. While validated instruments (ICH CAHPS) are in use to assess patient experience with in-center HD, currently no validated instruments are available to measure patient-reported experience in home dialysis.

This Home Patient Experience Survey Validation Study is an in-house research study conducted in partnership with the University of Washington.

Full description

Assessment of patient experience and satisfaction with care among individuals undergoing maintenance dialysis in the United States is a national health care priority and mandated by Congress. No validated instruments are available to measure the patient-reported experience of care in-home dialysis patients. Such tools are needed as more patients are expected to choose home dialysis therapies in the future. This study aims to validate a home patient experience survey instrument.

This is a cross-sectional validation to determine the measurement properties of a new home dialysis patient experience survey instrument. Satellite Healthcare home dialysis patients will be approached by mail or by phone to complete the survey.

The aim of this study is to perform field testing for this newly developed instrument for the purposes of instrument validation and to determine survey instrument measurement properties. This will include the evaluation of any multi-item scales as well as an overall score.

Enrollment: 513 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients receiving care for home dialysis at a facility that provides care for >= 3 patients at the time of cohort identification.

Exclusion criteria

• Age < 18 years
• Patients receiving care for home dialysis at the facility for less than 3 months
• Institutionalized (senior nursing facility/multi-resident facility) or Hospice care patients

Trial design

513 participants in 2 patient groups

Mail Survey Participants

Description:

Approximately 1200 home patients will receive mail surveys. Of these, one thousand and twenty (1,020) patients will be asked to complete the survey once. One hundred and eighty (180) patients will be asked to complete the survey twice.

Treatment:

Other: Survey using "Your Home Dialysis Care Experience" tool.

Telephone Survey Participants

Description:

Three hundred (300) home patients will be surveyed by phone. Of those, one hundred and twenty will be asked to complete the survey once. One hundred and eighty patients will be asked to complete the phone surveys on two separate occasions.

Treatment:

Other: Survey using "Your Home Dialysis Care Experience" tool.