NCT07272070

The Effect of Home-Based Walking on Symptoms and Health Profile of Hemodialysis Patients

Not yet recruiting NA Last updated 9 December 2025

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Group A (Home-based walking) in Muscle Cramp in 24 participants. Not yet recruiting.

Timeline

15 December 2025

Primary endpoint
31 May 2026

30 June 2026

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Figen Akay
Phase	NA
Status	Not yet recruiting
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	supportive care
Enrollment	24
Start date	15 December 2025
Primary completion	31 May 2026
Estimated completion	30 June 2026
Sites	1 location across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• Group A (Home-based walking)
• Group B (Usual hemodialysis care )

Conditions studied

• Muscle Cramp — all drugs for Muscle Cramp →
• Hemodialysis — all drugs for Hemodialysis →
• Vibration — all drugs for Vibration →
• Stretching — all drugs for Stretching →

Sponsor

Figen Akay

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Muscle Cramp or Hemodialysis. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This study aims to evaluate the effect of 8 weeks of home-based moderate-speed walking on hemodialysis symptoms and health profile while patients are receiving hemodialysis treatment.

Due to permanent deterioration in kidney function, patients need hemodialysis treatment, which is the most commonly used treatment method among renal replacement therapies. Hemodialysis treatment causes a series of physical and psychological problems. Problems such as hypotension, headache, nausea, muscle cramps, itching and pain are physical problems, while depression, anxiety, cognitive disorders and stress are psychological problems. In addition, it has been reported that long-term hemodialysis treatment and all the resulting problems increase the tendency to a sedentary lifestyle in this patient group, leading to a decrease in physical function and activity, and indirectly to a low quality of life and low survival rates. For this reason, hemodialysis patients have difficulty meeting their daily activities and needs, and their dependency and healthcare burden increase. Adopting a sedentary lifestyle by these patients prevents them from managing both the physical and psychological problems of hemodialysis and their conditions such as hypertension and diabetes mellitus, and causes the disease to progress. Physical exercises, which are considered among the useful therapeutic suggestions in addition to pharmacological treatments in the management of the negative situations that arise, are considered as an easy, useful and effective intervention method. Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) recommends 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical exercise at least 5 days a week. Additionally, it should not be overlooked that whether patients have places to do physical activity and what their facilities are are a detail that should be questioned by health professionals. Patients without suitable accommodations should be encouraged to engage in physical activity, especially in indoor spaces like home. Home-based walking exercise is known to be easy, inexpensive, and safe, and is also advantageous when the weather is not favorable. When we examined the studies in which home-based walking exercise was performed, it was determined that its effect on functional capacity was generally investigated, but its effect on the health outcomes and symptoms of patients receiving hemodialysis treatment was not evaluated. There was no evidence that home-based walking exercise had any effect on symptoms in patients receiving HD treatment. Therefore, it was planned to conduct a study to evaluate whether home-based walking exercise has an effect on patient health outcomes.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.