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Advance Care Planning With Older Patients Who Have End-stage Kidney Disease

NCT02631200 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 36

Last updated 2024-07-29

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Summary

This study will test the feasibility of carrying out a randomised controlled trial, incorporating a mixed methods process evaluation, to evaluate advance care planning with older patients who have end-stage kidney disease.

Conditions

  • Kidney Failure, Chronic

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Advance care plan

Participants will be offered the opportunity to complete an ACP by a nurse trained as an ACP facilitator, who will discuss the process with them using standard materials. At least 48 hours later, they will complete an ACP document with the help of the ACP facilitator, working together with trained expert patients who will provide peer support at the time of ACP completion and subsequently by telephone, assisted where necessary by the ACP facilitator.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Dunhill Medical Trust

    collaborator OTHER

  • Queen's University, Belfast

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Peter D O'Halloran, PhD · Queen's University, Belfast

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-12-31
Primary Completion
2018-07-31
Completion
2018-08-31

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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