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Fight Fatigue: A Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Walking Intervention to Reduce Fatigue in Adults With ESKD

Description

Fight Fatigue is evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a combined progressive muscle relaxation and walking intervention to reduce fatigue for adults with end-stage kidney disease receiving in-center hemodialysis.

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

Fight Fatigue is evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a combined progressive muscle relaxation and walking intervention to reduce fatigue for adults with end-stage kidney disease receiving in-center hemodialysis.

Fight Fatigue: A Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Walking Intervention to Reduce Fatigue in Adults With ESKD

Fight Fatigue: A Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Walking Intervention to Reduce Fatigue in Adults With ESKD

Condition
End Stage Renal Disease on Dialysis
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Chicago

UI Health/University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Diagnosis of ESKD diagnosis and receiving hemodialysis for at least 3 months
  • * Can read and speak English
  • * Fatigue measured via visual analogue scale, score ≥4 over the last week
  • * Able to stand and walk one block
  • * Has a cell phone that can receive text messages
  • * Patient's nephrologist refuses for them to participate
  • * Unstable angina
  • * Unstable pulmonary disease or pulmonary symptoms that preclude participation
  • * Lower-extremity amputation without prosthetic (BKA, AKA) -Orthopedic or neurologic condition that would preclude walking or tensing/releasing of muscles-
  • * Cognitive impairment that, in the judgement of the research team, precludes trial participation
  • * Participation in the formative phase of the development of Fight Fatigue

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Illinois at Chicago,

Study Record Dates

2027-06