Chronic Kidney Disease Awareness Campaign and Mobile Health Education to Improve Knowledge, Quality of Life, and Motivation for a Healthy Lifestyle Among Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease in Bangladesh: Randomized Controlled Trial

• Published in: Journal of medical Internet research 2022-08, Vol.24 (8), p.e37314-e37314
• Main Authors: Sarker, Mohammad Habibur Rahman, Moriyama, Michiko, Rashid, Harun Ur, Rahman, Md Moshiur, Chisti, Mohammod Jobayer, Das, Sumon Kumar, Saha, Samir Kumar, Arifeen, Shams El, Ahmed, Tahmeed, Faruque, A S G
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adult; Albumin; Bangladesh; Blood pressure; Body mass index; Campaigns; Cholesterol; Chronic kidney failure; Clinical trials; Consent; Control groups; Creatinine; Density; Diabetes; Disease prevention; Enrollments; Fasting; Health aspects; Health care; Health Education; Health initiatives; Health status; Healthy food; Healthy Lifestyle; Hemoglobin; Humans; Hypertension; Intervention; Interviews; Kidney diseases; Knowledge; Laboratories; Lifestyles; Medical personnel; Motivation; Original Paper; Patients; Quality of Life; Questionnaires; Renal Insufficiency, Chronic - therapy; Renal replacement therapy; Risk factors; Serum; Sugar; Telemedicine; Training; Triglycerides; Uric Acid
• ISSN: 1438-8871; 1439-4456; 1438-8871
• DOI: 10.2196/37314

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is linked to major health consequences and a poor quality of life. Despite the fact that CKD is becoming more prevalent, public knowledge of the disease remains low. This study aimed to evaluate the outcome of a health education intervention designed to enhance knowledge, health-related quality of life (QOL), and motivation about healthy lifestyle among adults with CKD. This study was a parallel-group (1:1), randomized controlled trial in the Mirzapur subdistrict of Bangladesh that compared 2 groups of patients with CKD. Adults with CKD (stages 1-3) were enrolled in November 2020 and randomly assigned the intervention or control group. The intervention group received health education through a CKD awareness campaign and mobile health technologies and was observed for 6 months, whereas the control group received standard treatment. The primary outcome was the evaluation of improved scores on the CKD knowledge questionnaire, and the secondary outcomes were improved QOL and changes in the levels of blood pressure (BP), BMI, serum creatinine, fasting blood sugar (FBS), hemoglobin, cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglyceride, serum uric acid, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and albumin-to-creatinine ratio. The study enrolled 126 patients (control: n=63; intervention: n=63) and performed intention-to-treat analysis. The analyses included repeated measures ANOVA, and the results were observed to be significantly different from within groups (P