End Stage Renal Disease, Home Dialysis
Conditions
Keywords
ESRD, Dialysis, Patient Experience, Home Dialysis
Brief summary
Home dialysis modalities, including peritoneal dialysis (PD) and home hemodialysis (HHD), represent alternatives to conventional in-center hemodialysis (HD) that for some patients may be better aligned with preferences regarding the integration of dialysis treatments into their lives. Assessment of patient experience and satisfaction with care among individuals undergoing maintenance dialysis in the United States is a national health care priority and mandated by Congress. While validated instruments (ICH CAHPS) are in use to assess patient experience with in-center HD, currently no validated instruments are available to measure patient-reported experience in home dialysis. This Home Patient Experience Survey Validation Study is an in-house research study conducted in partnership with the University of Washington.
Detailed description
Assessment of patient experience and satisfaction with care among individuals undergoing maintenance dialysis in the United States is a national health care priority and mandated by Congress. No validated instruments are available to measure the patient-reported experience of care in-home dialysis patients. Such tools are needed as more patients are expected to choose home dialysis therapies in the future. This study aims to validate a home patient experience survey instrument. This is a cross-sectional validation to determine the measurement properties of a new home dialysis patient experience survey instrument. Satellite Healthcare home dialysis patients will be approached by mail or by phone to complete the survey. The aim of this study is to perform field testing for this newly developed instrument for the purposes of instrument validation and to determine survey instrument measurement properties. This will include the evaluation of any multi-item scales as well as an overall score.
Interventions
OTHERSurvey using Your Home Dialysis Care Experience tool.
Validation of a new survey instrument to capture the experience of care by home dialysis patients.
Sponsors
University of Washington
Satellite Healthcare
Study design
Observational model
OTHER
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients receiving care for home dialysis at a facility that provides care for \>= 3 patients at the time of cohort identification.
Exclusion criteria
* Age \< 18 years * Patients receiving care for home dialysis at the facility for less than 3 months * Institutionalized (senior nursing facility/multi-resident facility) or Hospice care patients
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluation of the measurement model | through survey completion, an average of 6 months | The evaluation will encompass the survey burden, presence of a floor or ceiling effect for any item, test-retest reliability, development of multi-item subscales, internal consistency and reliability, center level reliability of the items and composites, and construct validity. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Survey response rate | through survey completion, an average of 6 months | Percent (%) of participants contacted who complete survey instrument |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed