Can Dietitians Reduce Interdialytic Weight Gain in at Risk Hemodialysis Patients Through Tailored Education on Dietary Sodium and Fluid Intake?

End Stage Renal Disease Requiring Hemodialysis Clinical Trial

Official title: Can Dietitians Reduce Interdialytic Weight Gain in at Risk Hemodialysis Patients Through Tailored Education on Dietary Sodium and Fluid Intake?

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this project is to understand if more frequent education of dialysis patients (patients with kidney failure who get their blood cleaned and fluid removed by a machine instead of their kidneys) on reducing sodium intake reduces the amount of fluid weight that patients gain between dialysis sessions. Patients who usually gain more fluid than is considered ideal will be recruited for this project. Because all patients gain different amounts to start, data will be collected for 3 months while the patients receive their usual amount of dietitian education. Then the patients will receive intensive (2x/month) education on reducing sodium intake from the dietitian and the same data will be collected to see if they gain less after the education. After 3 months of intensive education, data will be collected for one more month to see if patients keep gaining less or if they go back to their old patterns.

Clinical Trial Description

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Study Design

Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• End Stage Renal Disease Requiring Hemodialysis
• Kidney Failure, Chronic
• Weight Gain

• NCT number: NCT02130089
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 2014
• Completion date: November 2015