A scale to assess symptoms in chronic kidney disease (version 1).
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Development and validation of a self-administered symptom assessment instrument for patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease stages 4-5.
IRAS ID
121667
Contact name
Karen Pugh-Clarke
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Keele University.
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 5 months, 29 days
Research summary
Patients with chronic kidney disease stages 4-5 (that is patients with kidney problems that are not on dialysis treatment) experience symptoms, which may affect their quality of life (QOL) and everyday functioning. Therefore, identifying and treating these symptoms is an important part of their care. In order to tailor symptom treatment to individual patient needs, these symptoms need to be properly assessed. But there is no suitable tool available to assess symptoms in these patients.
The aim of this research is to develop and test a tool designed especially to assess symptoms in this patient group. Patients who agree to take part in this research will be asked to fill in the symptom assessment tool (SAT) during a routine out-patient kidney clinic visit. The SAT is in two parts:
Part one is a list of symptoms that patients may or may not have had. Thinking back on the last seven days, patients will be asked to tick any of the symptoms that they have had. For each symptom ticked the patient will be asked to rate how often they had it and how bothersome it was.
Part two asks patients to think about how all of their symptoms put together affect different parts of their life.
Patients will also be asked to fill in a questionnaire which asks about their QOL. Filling in the SAT and QOL questionnaire will take about 30 minutes, and no extra clinic visits are required. The results from this research will help healthcare professionals to monitor and manage the symptoms that kidney patients have more effectively.REC name
North East - Tyne & Wear South Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/NE/1146
Date of REC Opinion
23 Sep 2014
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion