NCT05599646

Pedometer-Based Walking Intervention on Physical Activity Among Hemodialysis Patients

Effects of Gamified Versus Traditional Pedometer-Based Walking Intervention on Physical Activity, Fatigue and Sleep Quality Among Hemodialysis Patients: A Quasi-Experimental Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 94 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mansoura University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patients undergoing HD are mostly physically inactive and have reduced functional capacities compared to healthy individuals which contributes to a decreased quality of life and consequently increases the risk of mortality

Detailed description

Physical activity has been shown to have various positive effects on HD patients . Some of the important benefits linked to exercise include an improvement in physical fitness , aerobic capacity , dialysis adequacy (measured as urea Kt/V) , quality of life , and reduced depressive symptoms .Walking can be considered as the most natural form of PA as it is easily performed by everyone except for the seriously disabled or very frail. Smartphones and their embedded computer technologies are increasingly being used to promote physical activity. Gamification presents itself as a promising approach to overcome a loss of interest, increase user engagement , raise the quality of health behaviors , and motivate users to use mHealth apps for a sustained period

Conditions

• Physical Inactivity
• Fatigue

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	traditional pedometer based walking intervention	Participants were recommended to monitor their step count using traditional pedometer and to increase their steps by 10% compared with the prior week. the intervention will continue for 12 weeks
BEHAVIORAL	gamified pedometer based walking intervention	Participants were recommended to monitor their step count using gamified pedometer, earn money, compete friends and to increase their steps by 10% compared with the prior week. the intervention will continue for 12 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-31
• Primary completion: 2023-09-30
• Completion: 2025-03-30
• First posted: 2022-10-31
• Last updated: 2025-05-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt