NCT04538443

Impact of CKD on Children and Their Families

Impact of Chronic Kidney Disease on Children Functional Capacity and Their Families' Quality of Life: A Cross Sectional Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Based on the available literatures, previous studies have investigated the impact of CKD and dialysis on patient's health among adult and elderly population. As far as we know, this is the first empirical study that investigates the impact of CKD on children functional capacity and their families QOL.

Detailed description

The current study will be done to investigate the long term effect of the CKD itself on different dimensions of the child health to understand the unique characteristics of pediatric CKD. Also, it will be beneficial for designing a comprehensive physical therapy protocol for prevention of different complications and to improve their wellbeing healthcare. Additionally, it will be beneficial to determine the family and parental stresses and to build the rehabilitation plan for the child considering the possible family issues regarding the child condition.

Conditions

• CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) Stage 5D

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	functional capacity	impact of hemodialysis on functional capacity in children with CKD
OTHER	muscle strength	impact of hemodialysis on muscle strength in children with CKD
OTHER	Quality of life of children	impact of hemodialysis on Quality of life in children with CKD
OTHER	Quality of life of families	impact of hemodialysis on Quality of life of families of children with CKD

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-10-01
• Primary completion: 2021-10-01
• Completion: 2021-10-30
• First posted: 2020-09-04
• Last updated: 2020-09-09