NCT06098924

HD Patients' Depression and Happiness

The Impacts of Spiritual Health on Depression and Happiness Among Hemodialysis Patients: the Moderator Effects of Life-meaning and Post-trauma Growth

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Chang Gung University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to verify the mediating effect of life of meaning and post-traumatic growth in spirituality and psychological well-being (happiness, depression).

Detailed description

The research design is cross-sectional correlational study. Convenient sampling will be used to conduct to data collection. There are 300 patients with hemodialysis from a hemodialysis institution in the north Taiwan, and data collecting with self-administrated questionnaires. The instruments include demographic and disease-related information, Spiritual Health Scale short form, Chinese Happiness Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory-II, Life Attitude Profile, Posttraumatic Growth Inventory. The SPSS 22.0 statistical software will be used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics, such as frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation (SD) will be used for participant characteristics and outcome measures. T-test, chi-square, ANOVA, post-hoc, ANCOVA, and Person's correlation will be conducted to test the relationships between the research variables.

Conditions

• Hemodialysis

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-09-10
• Primary completion: 2024-06-30
• Completion: 2024-07-31
• First posted: 2023-10-25
• Last updated: 2023-10-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan