Effect of COvid-19 on Mental Health in Syrian and Turkish Maintenance HemoDialysis Patients: COST-HD Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04444557

Acronym

COST-HD

Enrollment

Registered

2020-06-23

Start date

2020-04-17

Completion date

2020-05-01

Last updated

2020-06-23

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Conditions

Depression, Hemodialysis

Keywords

hemodialysis, depression

Brief summary

SARS-COV infection first has begun at Wuhan, China, and then became a pandemic. The first COVID-19 case has been reported on March 11, 2020, in Turkey. People older than 65 years old have been locked down on March 21 and people younger than 20 years old locked down at April 03. A total lockdown has been done a few times lasting for 3 or 4 days, especially at weekends. Renal replacement modalities have been affected in different ways during the pandemic. Patients with kidney transplantation and patients performing home hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis have been advised to perform self-isolation at homes. However, center hemodialysis patients continued to come dialysis centers obligatorily. Syrian civil war has been continuing since 2011, and Turkey has accepted millions of Syrian people in a position called temporary protection. There are many Syrian center hemodialysis patients both in Turkey and in our unit. The investigators do not know if pandemic affected Syrian patients different than Turkish ones. The aim of this study is to compare beck depression scores of Turkish and Syrian patients undergoing hemodialysis during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Interventions

OTHERBeck Depression Inventory (BDI)

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a 21-item, self-report rating inventory that measures characteristic attitudes and symptoms of depression

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Patients older than 18 years old * Hemodialysis history of more than three months

Exclusion criteria

* Patients who can not speak Turkish or Arabic, * Not volunteer to fill the form * History of hospitalization for any reason during the pandemic time, * History of COVID-19 before the questionnaire (Beck Depression Inventory)

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Score of Beck Depression Inventory	through study completion, an average of 6 months	Total score of Beck Depression Inventory (Minimin score: 0, Maximum score: 63; higher scores mean worse outcome)

Countries

Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026