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Skill Building Education of Arteriovenous-Fistula Self-Care Behaviors and Quality of Life of Patients on Hemodialysis

NCT06947772 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 274

Last updated 2025-04-27

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of skill building educational interventions in improving the self-care behaviors and quality of life of AVF in hemodialysis patients. This study will address questions.

What is the effect of skill building education on the self-care behaviors of AVF care and quality of life in patients in patients undergoing hemodialysis treatment? A total 274 participants will be recruited from dialysis units of the study hospitals. Using random allocation 137 participants will be assigned to the control group and 137 to the intervention group. The intervention group will additionally receive a skill building education for improving their self-care behaviors and quality of life of AVF.

Researcher will implement skill building educational intervention in interventional group to enhance the self-care behaviors and quality of life. This intervention have two session, first is theoretical and another one is practical. The primary outcome of this study is AVF self-care behaviors and secondary outcome is quality of life related to AVF. This outcome will be assessed using the Self-care Behaviors Scale with Arteriovenous Fistula in Hemodialysis patients (ASBHD-AVF). The secondary outcome will be assessed using the Hemodialysis Access-related Quality of Life (HARQ) which is a self-administered tool develop by Nordyke.

The primary and secondary outcomes will be assessed at: baseline, after the completion of the intervention, and follow-up data will be collected at the second and sixth weeks after intervention is completed. Data will be analyzed using the Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) version 25. Descriptive statistics, means and standard deviations will be used for the continuous variables, while frequencies and percentages will be utilized for categorical demographic data (gender, educational level, hemodialysis frequency, items of self-care behavior scale, QOL). Normality of data will be check and applied test accordingly.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Skill building education

This intervention includes two session. theoretical and practical. In theroretical patient will be teahc about self-care of AVF and in oracticla session they learn how to monitor their AVF. monitoring have three part. inspection, palpation and auscultation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bushra Sultan, PhD · Shifa College of Nursing (STMU)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-05-01
Primary Completion
2025-07-01
Completion
2025-08-30

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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