NCT03499054

Breathing Exercises to Improve Fatigue and Quality of Life in Hemodialysis Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 86 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Breathing exercises to improve fatigue and quality of life in hemodialysis patients

Detailed description

Patients receiving haemodialysis have poor physical function, psychological status and quality of life than the general population.Fatigue is a debilitating symptom in haemodialysis patients Exercise training may improve these parameters for haemodialysis patients. A 3-month randomized control trial with baseline、Week 4、Week 12 measurement periods was conducted. Exercise group was taught to Breathing exercise week and Usual care for three months. The control group received usual routine care. A total of 86 patients participated in this study, with 43 patients in the Exercise group and 43 patients in the control group Methods: Hemodialysis Fatigue scale 、 WHOQOL-BREF 、 HADS\_ Anxiety 、 HRV

Conditions

• Hemodialysis
• Breathing Exercises
• Fatigue

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Breathing exercises	During hemodialysis, the participants in the exercise group are asked to keep ttheir muscles relaxed, breathe normally through the nose at a rate of 3-8 times per minute with each breath held over 5 seconds in length. At the same time, the particpants are asked to also perform lower leg lifts for about 8 seconds per lift. The exercise is performed for 15-20 minutes, and after resting, blood pressure, oxygen saturation and HRV are measured.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-03-01
• Primary completion: 2017-06-15
• Completion: 2017-06-30
• First posted: 2018-04-17
• Last updated: 2018-04-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan