Arts activities during haemodialysis: a qualitative study
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Arts and creative living activities for patients receiving haemodialysis: a qualitative study
IRAS ID
273639
Contact name
Vari M Drennan MBE
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Kingston University
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
n/a, n/a
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 4 months, 0 days
Research summary
Haemodialysis is a renal replacement therapy offered in hospital or designated centres. Patients attend three times a week for four to five hours at a time. They often experience fatigue, low mood, anxiety, depression and boredom, in addition to medical complications due to limitations of dialysis to fulfil renal functions. There are theories that arts-based activities improve mood and quality of life in patients with chronic diseases, but very limited evidence as to the impact.
St. George’s Hospital Charity has been offering arts and creative living activities since July 2018 to patients while receiving haemodialysis. The purpose of this study is to elicit and evaluate the experiences of patients who have participated in the arts and creative living activities while receiving haemodialysis, and any positive or negative effects. It will be conducted in one NHS Hospital Trust, and will answer the questions:
1. What factors influence patients to take up or not the offer of participating in arts and creative living activities while receiving haemodialysis? And what are the perceived reasons why other patients like themselves may have declined the offer or only participated once?
2. What has been the patient experience, both positive and negative, of the arts and creative living activity/activities they have participated in?
3. In what ways can the arts and creative living activities offered to patients to participate in while receiving haemodialysis, be developed or improved?Qualitative methods will be employed. Individual semi-structured interviews will be sought among a purposive sample of patients who have participated in an arts and creative living activity while receiving haemodialysis, and a purposive sample of tutors who offer the activities. Interviews of 30 minutes with patient participants will take place face-to-face within their dialysis unit or by telephone, dependent on patient choice. Telephone interviews of 30-40 minutes will be conducted with tutors.
REC name
Wales REC 7
REC reference
19/WA/0324
Date of REC Opinion
5 Nov 2019
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion