Hemodialysis Health Management Model

National Taiwan University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nutritional Wasting; Physical Inactivity

Treatments: Other: Exercise training; Behavioral: Health platform; Behavioral: Social media

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05281497

201812145RINA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Aim: By application of wearable devices and health management platform to strengthen physical activity and improved life quality in hemodialysis patients.

Full description

Background: End stage renal disease (ESRD) is a global public health issue. The dialysis therapy brings huge economic burden to many countries. If patients are able to monitor their lifestyle, it not only promotes health, but also reduces the cost of health care.

Aim: By application of wearable devices and health management platform to strengthen physical activity and improved life quality in hemodialysis patients.

Material and Methods: The investigators plan to recruit 30 CKD patients as trial subjects for intervention. The intervention included wearable devices and health management platform for 24 weeks. Patients record their own diet diary by a smartphone application, and their exercise-related data are collected by wearable devices. Then, all the collected information will be upload to health management platform. The investigators compare physical and laboratory examinations before and after the intervention.

Enrollment: 31 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 20 years and older
• diagnosis of ESRD receiving maintenance HD for more than 3 months

Exclusion criteria

• inability to use a smartphone
• impaired walking capacity
• having a psychiatric disorder
• any hospitalization during the previous 3 months.
• has been changing dialysis modality or receiving renal transplantation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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31 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Each participant was provided with a wearable device. Each participant downloaded an app (WowGoHealth app) to connect with the health management platform. All participants were taught to record a dietary diary (taking photos of meals) using a smartphone application. All collected information was uploaded to the health management platform. For the intervention group, we encouraged exercise including an 18-minutes calisthenics. We also built a LINE group to inspire the intervention group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Social media

Behavioral: Health platform

Other: Exercise training

Control group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Each participant was provided with a wearable device. Each participant downloaded an app (WowGoHealth app) to connect with the health management platform. All participants were taught to record a dietary diary (taking photos of meals) using a smartphone application. We did not encourage exercise or build a LINE group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Health platform