The Agenda-Setting for Kidney Disease Open Pilot Trial

Conditions

• Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 4

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

18 Years - N/A

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• Chronic Kidney Disease Structured Agenda-Setting Tool — BEHAVIORAL
  Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Topics is a novel clinical visit agenda-setting intervention developed through participatory research methods for people with CKD living in rural areas. CKD Topics includes 8 structured discussion topic areas with the option for patients to consider and indicate their priority topic areas and take notes before, during, and after a clinical visit.

Study Details

The goal of this open pilot is to practice using an intervention and surveys before a larger pilot stepped wedge clinical trial. The intervention the researchers plan to use is Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Topics, and it is a structured clinical agenda-setting intervention (SAS), or a customized list of discussion topics. The people the researchers are practicing using the SAS with have advanced CKD (stages 4-5), and many of them live in rural areas. The researchers will practice administering CKD Topics, along with survey questions. By doing the open pilot, the researchers will learn if they need to modify the steps they plan to take in the larger trial. The main questions the researchers aim to answer are: * Do the steps for identifying eligible participants work? * Do the steps for administering CKD Topics work? * Do the steps to administer survey questions work?

Key Dates

Start date

Jul 31, 2026

Status verified

Oct 2025

Primary completion

Aug 31, 2026

Completion

Sep 30, 2026

Study Design

Enrollment

30 participants (estimated)

Allocation

NA

Intervention model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Arms

• Experimental: Arm 1 is Clinical Visit Agenda Setting Tool Intervention
  The study team will implement a structured clinical visit agenda-setting (SAS) intervention customized for advanced chronic kidney disease, called Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Topics.

Primary Outcome Measure

Primary Feasibility Outcome: Intervention receipt [ Time Frame: Day 1 ]

Central Contacts

• Catherine H. Saunders, Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy, PhD, MPH
  603-653-3436
  [email protected]
• Anne E. Dade, Research Associate, MPP
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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