The Effectiveness of Home-based Walking Program in Improving Quality of Life in Patients With Hemodialysis

Taipei Veterans General Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Hemodialysis

Treatments: Other: Exercise education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03996811

2019-06-003A

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will investigate the effectiveness of a rehabilitation program in improving physical functioning, cardiovascular health index, negative emotions, and quality of life in patients with hemodialysis in Taiwan.

Hypothesis:

1. The quality of life in exercise group is significant improving than usual-care group at 3rd, 6th, 12th, and 24th month.
2. The negative emotions in exercise group is significant improving than usual-care group at 3rd, 6th, 12th, and 24th month.
3. The cardiovascular health index in exercise group is significant improving than usual-care group at 3rd, 6th, 12th, and 24th month.
4. The Physical Functioning in exercise group is significant improving than usual-care group at 3rd, 6th, 12th, and 24th month.

Full description

This study will investigate the effectiveness of a rehabilitation program in improving Physical Functioning, cardiovascular health index, negative emotions, and quality of life in patients with hemodialysis in Taiwan.

Enrollment: 104 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-Patients with hemodialysis who were aged ≥20 years, could communicate in either Mandarin or Taiwanese, 6-minute walking test ≧ 300m and not cognitively impaired were included.

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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104 participants in 2 patient groups

exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

exercise education: A 12-week regimen of home-based walking exercises, include moderate intensity for 40 min, three times a week on non-dialysis days. We explained the participants how to perform the exercises, according to an instruction manual for the exercise regimen. Participants were instructed that the exercises would be effective only if they reached 40%-60% of the target heart rate, as determined by the Karvonen method, and 12-13 on the RPE.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise education

usual-care group

No Intervention group

Description:

Hospital routine care