Impact of a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) - Based Dietary Adherence Intervention on Interdialytic Weight Gain and Blood Pressure in Hemodialysis Patients

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

22

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

January 31, 2007

Primary Completion Date

January 31, 2009

Study Completion Date

January 31, 2009

Conditions
End-Stage Renal Disease
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Standard hemodialysis dietary instruction

Participants receive standard hemodialysis dietary instruction via a PowerPoint presentation delivered during routinely scheduled dialysis treatments.

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral counseling plus PDA-based self-monitoring of diet

Participants receive standard hemodialysis dietary instruction via a PowerPoint presentation delivered during routinely scheduled dialysis treatments. In addition they receive behavioral counseling paired with PDA-based self-monitoring of dietary sodium intake.

Trial Locations (1)

15213

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Paul Teschan Research Fund

OTHER

lead

University of Pittsburgh

OTHER

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