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Exploring the Impact of ACP Board Game for Life on Death Preparation and Anxiety in Patients With Stage 4 and 5 Chronic Kidney Diseases: A Pilot Study

Exploring the Impact of ACP Board Game for Life on Death Preparation and Anxiety in Patients With Stage 4 and 5 Chronic Kidney Diseases: A Pilot Study

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06046261
Enrollment
69
Registered
2023-09-21
Start date
2022-01-01
Completion date
2023-02-28
Last updated
2023-09-25

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Advance Care Planning, Chronic Kidney Disease, Chronic Renal Failure, Chronic Renal Insufficiency, Death Anxiety, End of Life Care

Keywords

Chronic Kidney Disease, Death Preparation, Death Anxiety, Advance Care Planning, Board Game

Brief summary

This study was to explore the impacts of participating in ACP board game for life on death preparation, death anxiety, end-of-life care preferences, and intervention perception in stage 4-5 CKD patients with advanced chronic kidney diseases in a medical center.

Detailed description

This study was to explore the impacts of participating in ACP board game for life on death preparation, death anxiety, end-of-life care preferences, and intervention perception in stage 4-5 CKD patients with advanced chronic kidney diseases in a medical center. A nonrandomized two-arm pretest and posttest quasi-experimental design was used. Patients in the control group received routine care while patients in the experimental group received routine care and ACP board game for life. The ACP board game, death preparation subscale, Chinese Likert death anxiety scale, self-created questionnaires and brief interview were used for data collection.

Interventions

OTHERACP board game for life

The research subjects will be assigned to the experimental group or the control group according to their wishes. Those who are willing to participate the ACP board game will be assigned to the experimental group. The intervention time for each board game is around 2 hours. There are 60 cards in this ACP board game; the focus of the game is to know the participants' thoughts on the card options. Questionnaires need to be filled in before and after intervention.

Sponsors

National Cheng-Kung University Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
21 Years to 78 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Stage 4-5 chronic kidney disease patients * Chinese nationality * Over 20 years old * Consciousness clear, can communicate and express their opinions in Mandarin and Taiwanese

Exclusion criteria

* Patients express that talking about death makes them feel scared or cause anxiety * The doctor assesses that the patient's condition is in the stage of septic shock, hemodynamic instability, asthma, pulmonary edema, hypoxemia or acute myocardial infarction * Patients with contact or airborne precautions * Patients without legal capacity

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Death Preparation2hoursThe death preparation subscale total of 8 items measure death preparation.The range of total scores of the subscale is 8-40. It shows that the higher scores, the better death preparedness.
Death Anxiety2hoursThe Chinese Likert death anxiety scale was used, with a total of 15 items, using a Likert scale of 1 to 5 (1 means completely disagree, 2 means disagree, 3 means fair, 4 means agree, and 5 means completely agree) ), the total scores of the scale ranges from 15 to 75. The higher total scores, the higher degree of death anxiety.
End-of-Life Care Preferences2hoursA self-made questionnaire on end-of-life care preferences for patients with stage 4-5 CKD was used. There were 2 items in the scale. The item type was multiple choice, the scoring method is based on the number of times and percentages chosen by the participants.
Intervention Perception2hoursA self-made questionnaire on the feelings of CKD stage 4-5 patients after participating in the ACP board game for life was used. There are 4 items in the scale, using a Likert scoring method of 1 to 5 points (1 point means completely disagree, 2 points means disagree, 3 points means neither agree nor disagree, 4 points means agree, 5 points means strongly agree), the scoring method is based on the participant's options for Mean±SD, frequency and percentage statistics.

Countries

Taiwan

Outcome results

None listed

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