NCT05842772

Feasibility Testing a shareD dEciSIon Making Intervention for People With Kidney failuRE, Their Relatives, and the Health Professionals in Kidney Services: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Study Protocol

Feasibility Testing a shareD dEciSIon Making Intervention for People With Kidney failuRE (DESIRE), Their Relatives, and the Health Professionals in Kidney Services: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Study Protocol

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 27 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Aarhus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this research is to test the acceptability and feasibility of a shared decision making intervention and a patient decision aid to support patients with kidney failure, relatives, and health professionals in planning and deciding about end-of-life care together.

Detailed description

The objectives of this study is to pilot test an intervention aiming to accomplish shared decision making when deciding about end-of-life care preferences in people with kidney failure. The intervention consists of shared decision making consultations for adults with kidney failure their relatives and contact health professionals regarding end-of-life care planning supported by a patient decision aid. We will evaluate how adults, relatives and, health professionals implements the intervention and if the intervention is acceptable to the different stakeholders. The research question will investigate if the adults, relatives, and health professionals are experiencing the intervention as shared decision making and if they feel involved in the decision making process. The DESIRE trial is designed as a pragmatic, pilot, randomized, controlled, non-blinded multicenter superiority trial with two parallel groups will test the acceptability and feasibility of the intervention on patients, relatives, and health professionals. Randomization will be performed as block randomization with a 1:1 allocation.

Conditions

• Kidney Failure
• End of Life

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Shared decision making intervention for patients with kidney failure when planning end-of-life care	Testing a shared decision making intervention and a patient decision aid for patients with kidney failure, their relatives, and the health professionals.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-20
• Primary completion: 2023-10-06
• Completion: 2023-10-06
• First posted: 2023-05-06
• Last updated: 2024-05-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark