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The Effect of Home Based Tel-Exercise on Dialysis Patients

The Effect of Synchronous Home Based Tele Exercise on Physical Function, Daily Physical Activity and Frailty in Dialysis Patients: A Randomized Pilot Trial

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT06313892
Enrollment
30
Registered
2024-03-15
Start date
2024-03-15
Completion date
2024-07-02
Last updated
2025-01-13

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

Conditions

End Stage Renal Disease, Hemodialysis Complication

Keywords

Inactivity, Tele exercise, Home based exercise, Hemodialysis, Frailty, Physical function

Brief summary

The objective of the trial is to assess key areas of uncertainty regarding the use of synchronous home-based tele exercise in future practice and research, including issues relating to feasibility, safety and potential for efficacy.

Detailed description

Patients with renal failure undergoing maintenance dialysis (HD) therapy typically have very low levels of physical activity (PA), and this is associated with greatly increased morbidity and mortality. According to studies, regular exercise is beneficial for patients at all stages, and the current recommendations for the prevention and management of side effects in HD patients, especially in the elderly, is regular exercise because it improves physical performance and PA . Currently, due to the unfamiliarity of dialysis center staff and nephrologists with the benefits of exercise, only 10% of the world's clinics have a plan to exercise during HD. Therefore, home-based exercise programs are a suitable option for patients to reduce their costs and make it easy to adhere to. Home-based exercise has the potential to utilize higher volume and higher intensity training if activity is monitored. However, many of these programs are unsupervised and this is one of the major disadvantages of home-based exercise programs. Lack of prior knowledge about the safety and benefits of exercise programs, fear of injury, and lack of interest or motivation are barriers to exercise at home. Tele-rehabilitation is rehabilitation services provided to patients from distant locations using information and communication technologies.Several studies have reported the use of e health-based self-management interventions in chronic kidney disease patients. However, further research is needed to better understand the extent to which these techniques are acceptable, safe and potentially effective for supporting individuals undergoing HD treatment, given their unique needs and risk profile, is unknown. Our study seeks to address this gap by conducting a pilot evaluation of synchronous home-based tele exercise intervention designed for HD patient.

Interventions

The participants in the study group will be given an online personalized exercise program at home in non dialysis days. Synchronous tele-exercise will be delivered using the free teleconference application (app) (Google Meets software). The groups of tele-exercises will be private and the professional will send the link for each training session and will control the access of the participants. Each session will be 40 to 45 min in duration for 3 days per week over 12 weeks, 36 sessions in total.

Sponsors

Pardis Specialized Wellness Institute
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Masking description

A research project collaborator who is not informed about grouping of participants will obtain outcome measurements of the functional test. Outcome adjudicators, and data analysts will be kept blinded to the allocation. Moreover, all investigators, staff, and participants will be kept masked to outcome measurements and trial results.

Intervention model description

Participants will be randomly allocate to intervention group or control group and will be examined in the same way.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

1. being Aged 18 years and over 2. Regular in-center HD 3 times a week 3. completed at least 1 year of stable HD history 4. Without myocardial infarction within past 3 months 5. permission from their doctors 6. have decision making capacity to enable them to give informed consent to take part in the study 7. have access to a smart device (e.g. smart phone, laptop or tablet), and have internet access

Exclusion criteria

1\) Unstable cardiac status (angina, decompensated congestive heart failure, severe arteriovenous stenosis, uncontrolled arrhythmias, etc.) 2) Active infection or acute medical illness 3) Hemodynamic instability 4) Labile glycemic control 5) Unable to exercise (lower extremity amputation with no prosthesis) 6) having severe musculoskeletal pain at rest or with minimal activity 7) Unable to sit, stand or walk unassisted (walking device such as cane or walker allowed) 8) Having shortness of breath at rest or with activities of daily living (NYHAClass IV) 9) individuals with exercise participation ≥ 3 times per week that addressed ≥ 2 of the domains 10) Unstable HD treatment and changing (titrating) medication regime 11) Excess inter-dialytic weight gain (\>4 kg since last HD or exercise session) 12) Myocardial infarction within past 3 months \-

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Recruitment rate1 MonthDetermining recruitment by eligible number/enrolled number
Retention rates3 MonthsDetermining retention rate by patients who completed visit 2 / recruited patients
Adherence rate3 MonthsDetermining the adherence by the number of participation in exercise sessions by a participant / the number of the exercise sessions planned in the program

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Rate of changes of daily physical activity levelPre test and 3 months later ( post test)To examine the effect of home-based synchronous tele-exercise on daily activity level by using Low Physical activity questionnaire. The questionnaire consists of 11 items that assess various parameters of physical activity within the past 7 days. These parameters include the amount of time spent walking around the neighborhood, for fitness or pleasure, and for transportation purposes, as well as the average duration of sedentary and sitting activities. The questionnaire also calculates the kilocalories expended during light, moderate, vigorous, and total physical activities.
Rate of changes of Frailty levelPre test and 3 months later ( post test)To examine the effect of home-based synchronous tele-exercise on daily activity level by using Fried Frailty Index. Patients will be considered frail if they met 3 or more of the following 5 criteria: unintentional weight loss of 10 pounds or more in the prior year by self-report; exhaustion based on responses to two questions about energy; low physical activity based on the Minnesota questionnaire (\< 383 kcal/wk for men or \< 270 kcal/wk for women); slow gait speed (based on gender- and height-stratified cutoffs); and weak grip strength (based on gender- and BMI-stratified cutoffs). Patients will be asked whether they are independent in the following activities of daily living (ADLs): bathing, dressing, getting in and out of a chair, and walking around their home or apartment. Those reporting dependency in one or more will be considered to have an ADL limitation.
Rate of changes of physical function levelPre test and 3 months later ( post test)To examine the effect of home-based synchronous tele-exercise on physical function level by 6 minute walk test and short physical performance battery test

Countries

Iran

Outcome results

None listed

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