Condition 1: Anxiety. Condition 2: Depression. Condition 3: Stress. Anxiety disorder, unspecified Depressive episode, unspecified Stress, not elsewhere classified
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention 1: The program comprises three 15- to 20-minutes educational practice sessions weekly offered over an eight-week period. Half an hour before starting dialysis, patients will attend in a r
Behavior
In order to decrease the investigator bias, the tutor and the researcher will attend the control group half an hour once a week and will discuss the dialysis and their related problems.
The program comprises three 15- to 20-minutes educational practice sessions weekly offered over an eight-week period. Half an hour before starting dialysis, patients will attend in a room located in t
Sponsors
Vice chancellor for research, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: The inclusion criteria: diagnosed with chronic kidney disease by their physicians; being under hemodialysis for at least three months; not having participated in other intervention studies; ability to participate in training sessions; ability to do meditation exercises; being registered in the hospital; lack of previous experiences with meditation; and lack of specific medical prohibitions, such as deafness, blindness, end-stage heart failure, brain trauma, uncontrolled hypertension and acute glaucoma; being consent to participate in the study; Lack of psychological drug use; lack of proved psychological disease. The exclusion criteria include unable or unwilling to participate in a group program; having reduced cognitive ability; hospitalized because of other medical conditions; having contraindications for doing meditation exercises; kidney transplantation during the study or referring to other hospitals; fistula or graft damages; and using psychological medications during the study.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria:
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Anxiety. Timepoint: Before the intervention, four weeks after the intervention and after 8 weeks of intervention. Method of measurement: Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale- 21 (DASS-21).;Depression. Timepoint: Before the intervention, four weeks after the intervention and after 8 weeks of intervention. Method of measurement: Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale- 21 (DASS-21).;Stress. Timepoint: Before the intervention, four weeks after the intervention and after 8 weeks of intervention. Method of measurement: Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale- 21 (DASS-21). | — |
Countries
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Contacts
Public ContactKourosh Amini
Zanjan University of Medical Sciences
Outcome results
None listed