NCT02504021

Family Meeting Study for End Stage Renal Disease

Family Consultation for High-Risk Inpatients With End Stage Renal Disease: A Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mark A. Lumley · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A randomized clinical trial for patients with end stage renal disease in which a family consultation condition is compared against a treatment as usual control condition on the hospital readmissions after 1 month as the primary outcome variable.

Detailed description

Patients hospitalized at Henry For Hospital who have end stage renal disease will complete baseline questionnaires and be randomized into the experimental or control condition. Patients randomized into the experimental condition will have a single family consultation session before the patient is discharged. A trained, master's level therapist will conduct the family consultation, which will use education, motivational interviewing, and other techniques to help the family engage and support the patient's health needs. Patients in both the experimental and control conditions will complete follow up questionnaires 1 month after discharge. Investigators will conduct chart reviews of outcome data, including readmissions, at 1, 3, and 6 months post-discharge.

Conditions

• End-stage Renal Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family Consultation	This intervention is based on psychoeducation, social support mobilization, and motivational interviewing techniques.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-07-01
• Primary completion: 2016-05-01
• Completion: 2016-10-01
• First posted: 2015-07-21
• Last updated: 2017-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States