None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The intervention will be a support group conducted on TEAMs and will be a patient led group moderated by senior nursing staff. Allied health will be invited to contribute to the sessions as required and the content included in the sessions will be ascertained by engaging with patients to keep the initiative very patient focused. The sessions will be run weekly for approximately 1 hour over the course of 4 weeks. It will be an opportunity for patients to engage with and support each other as well as a chance to engage with relevant healthcare professionals who will provide relevant support and education. Two validated tools will used pre intervention to assess the participants anxiety and depression and quality of life. The same tools will then be used again after the 4-week intervention to reassess and provide quantitative data for the study. The online support group will be a patient centred approach to providing self-management support. This study will look at quality of life and anxiety and depression outcomes associated with the online education and support group intervention.
Interventions
Patients will use their own equipment (Phone/Tablet/Computer) to join a weekly online support group. Using input and engagement from patients and hospital staff a four-week support group will be conducted online using the online TEAMs platform. The online TEAMs support group sessions will run weekly for approximately 1 hour once per week for 4 weeks. This will be a new intervention implemented and different to conventional face to face support groups. Face to face support groups are the usua
Patients will use their own equipment (Phone/Tablet/Computer) to join a weekly online support group. Using input and engagement from patients and hospital staff a four-week support group will be conducted online using the online TEAMs platform. The online TEAMs support group sessions will run weekly for approximately 1 hour once per week for 4 weeks. This will be a new intervention implemented and different to conventional face to face support groups. Face to face support groups are the usual medium for patients choosing to attend a support group. The online support group will be conducted on TEAMS and moderated by Queensland Health healthcare professionals. Moderation of the online support group will be done by the research team. Allied health staff for example the renal social worker, renal psychologist, renal dietitian and renal pharmacist will be invited to join and contribute to the sessions as required and based on patient need determined through engagement with the participants during the sessions. The content of the sessions will be informal conversations. Patients will be encouraged to share experience and provide each other emotional and moral support. Support groups are an opportunity for patients to form friendships to feel less isolated. Patients will be encouraged to talk freely about their condition and share tips they have used to manage their condition.
Sponsors
Logan Renal Dialysis Unit
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Primary purpose
Treatment
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Patients must be on a haemodialysis treatment.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria include patients who do not wish to be included in the trial. Patients who do not have the necessary equipment and an internet connection.
Outcome results
None listed