Web-based Interactive Health Communication Application (IHCA) for Successful Home Dialysis

Chronic Kidney Disease Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Web-based IHCA for Successful Home Dialysis

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01403454
• Other study ID #: 11-3536
• Secondary ID: Grant
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 21, 2011
• Last updated: April 18, 2016
• Start date: March 2012
• Est. completion date: June 2017

Study information

• Verified date: April 2016
• Source: St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
• Contact: Scott K Brimble, MD
• Phone: 905-522-1155
• Email: brimbles[@]mcmaster.ca
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Ethics Review Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study involves Chronic Kidney Disease patients that must choose the type of dialysis therapy they ultimately wish to perform. These patients receive education regarding dialysis types from nurses and Nephrologists at a Kidney Function Program. The investigators have developed a web-based Interactive Health Communication Application that could provide more education and support to patients about their dialysis choices. The investigators will compare patients that will receive usual care dialysis education versus patients that will receive additional education through this web-based application. The investigators feel that this tool may increase the proportion of patients who start home dialysis, which offers advantages such as improvement in quality of life and deceased overall healthcare costs, over hospital hemodialysis.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 152
• Est. completion date: June 2017
• Est. primary completion date: December 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• enrolled in Kidney Function Program (KFP)

• previously received KFP-administered dialysis modality education

• personal access to a home computer (ie. either their own or a close friend/family member) with internet access

• most recent eGFR < or = 20mL/min/1.73m2

Exclusion Criteria:

• inability to provide informed consent

• inability to use a home computer or internet

• inability to understand English (written or spoke)

• severe visual or auditory impairment

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Supportive Care

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Kidney Disease
• Kidney Diseases
• Renal Insufficiency, Chronic

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Interactive Health Communication Application
web-based application

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton	Hamilton	Ontario

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton	McMaster University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of patients that start home-based dialysis.	Difference between groups in proportion of patients starting home-based dialysis.	1 year	No
Secondary	Number intended to start home-based dialysis	Difference between groups in proportion of patients intending to perform home-based dialysis	1 year	No
Secondary	Increase in dialysis knowledge	Difference between groups in dialysis knowledge.	1 year	No
Secondary	Increase in decision making and social support.	Difference between groups in decision conflict and sense of social support.	1 year	No
Secondary	Mortality differences	Difference between groups in all-cause mortality.	1 year	No