Facilitating Anemia Treatment Risk Communication for Patients With Kidney Disease: Decision Aid Trial

January 21, 2015 updated by: Kerri Cavanaugh, Vanderbilt University

Anemia is a common complication of chronic kidney disease (CKD). In anemia of chronic kidney disease, patients suffer from low hemoglobin levels, which contribute to feelings of malaise and fatigue. The current accepted practice is often to administer erythropoietin-stimulating agents (ESAs), which act like the body's natural hormones to stimulate the production of red blood cells from bone marrow. Although ESAs are widely used in CKD, recent evidence suggests that they are not as safe as previously thought. In this study, we seek to test a decision aid to be used when a patient visits his or her nephrologist at Vanderbilt. The objective of the decision aid is to reduce patient confusion, improve their satisfaction with their care, improve their knowledge of kidney disease, and ultimately bring more clarity to patients about a controversial but ubiquitous drug.

The decision aid will be about 1 page long and will include questions and information that might help the patient be more active and informed regarding the choice of a course of ESA therapy. We will ask patients to answer questions before and after their clinic visits regarding their satisfaction and confidence in their treatment and their knowledge of kidney disease; we will ask some of the same questions 3 months after the clinic visit. We will compare patients who are counseled using the decision aid to patients who are not. We anticipate total experiment running time to be approximately 5 months to recruit and follow up on all patients.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

109

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Tennessee
      • Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
        • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 80 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Has Chronic Kidney Disease or End Stage Renal Disease
  • Over 18, under 80 years of age
  • Currently receiving care in the Vanderbilt Nephrology or Dialysis Clinics
  • Receiving ESAs for anemia
  • Speaks and can read English (no previous use of interpreter services)
  • No significant visual impairment documented in medical record

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Diagnosed cognitive disability
  • Stated inability to converse and read fluently in English, or prior use of translation services
  • Poor visual acuity

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: interactive educational intervention
Physicians will use an interactive educational worksheet during the standard-of-care clinic visit.
Behavioral: interactive educational intervention
Use of a concise, literacy-sensitive, physician-led, educational interaction with the patient.
No Intervention: control group
Physicians will conduct the standard-of-care clinic visit as usual.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
change in patient understanding of anemia and treatment options
Time Frame: baseline and 3 months

Change from baseline in the following surveys/questionaires at 3 months:

  • Anemia Knowledge Survey (PAKKD)
  • Perceived Kidney Self-Management Scale (PKiSMS or PDiSMS for ESRD)
  • Social Support Measure (MSPSS)
  • Perceived Efficacy in Patient-Physician Interactions (PEPPI)
baseline and 3 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Vanderbilt University

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Kerri Cavanaugh, MD, Vanderbilt University

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

November 1, 2013

Primary Completion (Actual)

August 1, 2014

Study Completion (Actual)

August 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 14, 2013

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

November 19, 2013

First Posted (Estimate)

November 25, 2013

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

January 22, 2015

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 21, 2015

Last Verified

January 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 130784

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

Clinical Trials on End Stage Renal Disease

Clinical Trials on interactive educational intervention

Search Similar Trials

Sponsors and Collaborators

Medical Conditions

Drug Interventions

CROs by country

CROs in Finland

Conditions

Rare Diseases

Drug Interventions

Dietary Supplements

Sponsor/Collaborators

Locations

Subscribe