Trial reportBMC nephrology2022
Effectiveness of a brief hope intervention for chronic kidney disease patients on the decisional conflict and quality of life: a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC nephrology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03378700 (Evaluation on the Effects of a Brief Hope Intervention to the Decision Making in the Chinese Chronic Kidney Disease Patients on Their Management Options), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Evaluation on the Effects of a Brief Hope Intervention to the Decision Making in the Chinese Chronic Kidney Disease Patients on Their Management Options: a Randomised Controlled Trial
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Hope as a Therapeutic Resource: Systematic Evidence of its Impact on Mental, Physical, and Spiritual Health.Journal of religion and health · 2026Pooled it
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- Effects of a Life Hope Program on Self-Care Ability and Hope Levels in Hemodialysis Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2026Trial
- Effect of intensive water-salt diet nursing intervention on blood pressure and volume load in patients with chronic renal failure.Renal failure · 2025Trial
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- Decisional Conflict and Patient Experiences in Dialysis Treatment Decision-Making: A Mixed-Methods Study in a Portuguese Cohort.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Prevalence and predictors of decisional conflict among older African Americans with advanced chronic kidney disease.Innovation in aging · 2026Article
- Subjectivity study on health conservation of elderly hemodialysis patients.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Path Analysis of Health Literacy, Social Support, and Self-Efficacy on Decisional Conflict in Patients with Stable Schizophrenia.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2024Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundStage 5 chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients often experience decisional conflict when faced with the selection between the initiation of dialysis and conservative care. The study examined the effects of a brief hope intervention (BHI) on the levels of hope, decisional conflict and the quality of life for stage 5 CKD patients.
methodsThis is a single-blinded, randomized controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03378700). Eligible patients were recruited from the outpatient department renal clinic of a regional hospital. They were randomly assigned to either the intervention or the control group (intervention: n = 35; control: n = 37). All participants underwent a customized pre-dialysis education class, while the intervention group received also BHI. Data were collected prior to the intervention, immediately afterwards, and one month following the intervention. The Generalized Estimating Equation was used to measure the effects in the level of hope, decisional conflict scores (DCS) and Kidney Disease Quality of life (KDQOL-36) scores. Estimated marginal means and standard errors with 95% confidence intervals of these scores were also reported to examine the within group and between group changes.
resultsAn increase of the hope score was found from time 1 (29.7, 1.64) to time 3 (34.4, 1.27) in the intervention group. The intervention had a significant effect on the KDQOL-36 sub-scores Mental Component Summary (MCS) (Wald χ
conclusionsThe BHI appeared to increase the level of hope within the intervention arm. Nonetheless, differences across the intervention and control arms were not significant. The KDQOL-36 sub-scores on MCS and Effects of kidney disease were found to have increased and be higher in the intervention group. The DCS total score also showed that hope was associated with reducing decisional conflict.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov Protocol Registration, NCT03378700 . Registered July 12 2017.
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