The Effect of Peer Support on Disease Adaptation and Self-Care Ability in Individuals Diagnosed With Chronic Kidney Failure (Peer support)

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Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Kidney Disease Requiring Hemodialysis

Treatments: Behavioral: peer support

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07125976

29384756

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was designed as an interventional, pretest-posttest controlled trial to examine the effects of peer interaction on disease adaptation and self-care ability in patients newly diagnosed with chronic kidney failure and starting dialysis. The main hypothesis:

H1: Structured peer support provided to patients receiving hemodialysis treatment has a positive effect on their level of adaptation to the disease.

H2: Structured peer support provided to patients receiving hemodialysis treatment has a positive effect on their self-care power.

Researchers will compare control group to see if adaptation to the dieases and self-care power.

Patients in the intervention group received peer support during their hospital stay, while those in the control group followed the routine clinical process.

Full description

This study was conducted with 64 patients in the nephrology clinic of a Training and Research Hospital in Istanbul. Data were collected using the Personal Information Form, the Chronic Illness Adaptation Scale, and the Self-Management of Chronic Illness Scale. Patients in the intervention group received peer support during their hospital stay, while those in the control group followed the routine clinical process. Participants in the intervention group took part in a structured peer support program, with pre-test data collected through the Self-Care Management Scale in Chronic Illness and the Chronic Illness Adaptation Scale. The program consisted of 4-6 sessions over one week, each lasting 30-45 minutes, focusing on disease information, self-care behaviors, psychosocial coping, and motivation, delivered by trained peers of similar age and gender. Post-test data were collected after the program to assess changes and analyze the effect of structured peer support.

Enrollment: 64 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Those receiving hemodialysis treatment for at most 6 months
• Not having mental illness according to DSM
• Without multiple chronic diseases
• Who agreed to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Hospital stay longer or shorter than 1 week
• Treatment complications developed

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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64 participants in 2 patient groups

Peer Support group

Experimental group

Description:

In this group, structured peer support was provided for 1 week in addition to routine care practices applied in the clinic.

Treatment:

Behavioral: peer support

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

group monitored with routine clinical care