Restless Leg Syndrome: Is There a Response to Buddhist Walking Meditation in Hemodialysis

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Hemolysis; Restless Legs Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: Buddhist walking meditation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06806891

P.T.REC/012/005557

Details and patient eligibility

About

the restless leg syndrome is a common complaint in person who undergo hemodialysis. Buddhist walking meditation efficacy was not investigated in those population

Full description

the total participants will be 40. all patients will be on hemodialyis. they complain restless leg syndrome. the participants will be divided to group I which received Buddhist walking meditation. this program of meditation will be 30 minutes thrice weekly. before and after buddhist meditation walking, there will be 5 minutes stretching exercises working as warm up or cooling down respectively. the other group will serve as control one .. the number of patient in every group will be 20. the total duration of Buddhist walking meditation will be 12 weeks.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 35 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• hemodialysis patient (40)
• complain of restless leg syndrome
• non obese patients

Exclusion criteria

• cardiac patients
• chest diseases
• mental diseases
• hepatic diseases
• lower limb orthopedic hurting

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

group number 1

Experimental group

Description:

the participants will be on hemodialyis. they complain restless leg syndrome. the participants will receive Buddhist walking meditation. this program of meditation will be 30 minutes thrice weekly. before and after Buddhist walking meditation .. the number of patients in the group will be 20. the total duration of Buddhist walking meditation will be 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Buddhist walking meditation

group number 2

No Intervention group

Description:

the participants will be on hemodialyis. they complain restless leg syndrome. the number of patients in the group will be 20. this group will be control group that will not receive training .