NCT04188210

Elbow Pain in Hemodialysis Patients and Its Effect on Daily Living Activities of the Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 135 (actual)
• Sponsor: Namik Kemal University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study will include the patients undergoing hemodialysis.

Detailed description

The study will include the patients undergoing hemodialysis. The patients with surgery at upper extremity in last 3 months, the presence of conditions such as cancer, chronic hearing loss and neurologic diseases affect the interview will be excluded. Sociodemographic properties which include age, gender, duration of dialysis, educational level, comorbid diseases, vascular access area, hand dominancy will be asked. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand Score (Q-DASH) and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) will applied to all patients. All the demographic results and vascular access area for hemodialysis will be detected. All data for normality will be tested by using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. To compare the differences between groups, Mann Whitney U test will be used

Conditions

• End Stage Renal Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Presence of elbow pain in patients with end stage renal disease	The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) scores were measured for all patients to evaluate depression symptoms and health-related quality of life. The elbow pain presence was asked to all the patients, the patients with elbow pain were also evaluated with The Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand Score (Q-DASH) and Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). VAS detected as pain during rest, activity, night and pain at last week.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-03-01
• Primary completion: 2019-04-01
• Completion: 2019-04-01
• First posted: 2019-12-05
• Last updated: 2019-12-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)