Specialty: Renal disorders, Primary sub-specialty: Renal disorders
Conditions
Interventions
Following enrolment in the study participants take part in three phases of qualitative data collection.
Phase one: Pre-diary interview
Semi-structured pre- interviews
Sponsors
University of Leicester
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Be a prevalent haemodialysis patient (receiving HD for 3 months or greater) 2. Age 18 years or older 3. Clinically stable at the time of recruitment 4. Able and willing to give informed consent 5. History of falls in the last 6 months or high risk of falls
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Unable or unwilling to give informed consent 2. Patients who are unable to understand, read or speak English 3. Unable to participate in an exercise due to perceived physical or psychological barriers 4. Unfit to undertake exercise or exercise testing according to the American College of Sports Medicine guidelines and as determined by the patient's Consultant Nephrologist including: 4.1. Significant ischaemia, recent myocardial infarction (2 weeks) or other acute cardiac event 4.2. Unstable angina 4.3. Uncontrolled cardiac dysrhythmias causing symptoms or haemodynamic compromise 4.4. Symptomatic severe aortic stenosis 4.5. Uncontrolled symptomatic heart failure 4.6. Acute pulmonary embolus or pulmonary infarction 4.7. Acute myocarditis or pericarditis 4.8. Suspected or known dissecting aneurysm 4.9. Acute systemic infection, accompanied by fever, body aches or swollen lymph glands
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Experiences of patients will be explored using semi-structured qualitative interviews at baseline and around month four and solicited qualitative dairies kept between months one and three. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| There are no secondary outcome measures. | — |
Countries
England, United Kingdom
Contacts
Public ContactHannah Young
Outcome results
None listed