Restless Leg Syndrome: Is There a Response to Buddhist Walking Meditation in Hemodialysis
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Buddhist walking meditation.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Hemolysis, Restless Legs Syndrome. Basic parameters: 35 years — 65 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Egypt
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
the restless leg syndrome is a common complaint in person who undergo hemodialysis. Buddhist walking meditation efficacy was not investigated in those population
Detailed description
the total participants will be 40. all patients will be on hemodialyis. they complain restless leg syndrome. the participants will be divided to group I which received Buddhist walking meditation. this program of meditation will be 30 minutes thrice weekly. before and after buddhist meditation walking, there will be 5 minutes stretching exercises working as warm up or cooling down respectively. the other group will serve as control one .. the number of patient in every group will be 20. the total duration of Buddhist walking meditation will be 12 weeks.
Interventions
- Behavioral Buddhist walking meditation
the participants will be on hemodialyis. they complain restless leg syndrome. the participants will receive Buddhist walking meditation. this program of meditation will be 30 minutes thrice weekly. before and after Buddhist walking meditation .. The number of patients in the group will be 20. the total duration of Buddhist walking meditation will be 12 weeks.
Primary outcome measures
- international RLS Study Group Rating [Time frame: it will be measured after 12 weeks]
Secondary outcome measures (12)
- Pittsburg sleep quality index [Time frame: it will be measured after 12 weeks]
- fatigue severity scale [Time frame: it will be measured after 12 weeks]
- sit to stand test [Time frame: it will be measured after 12 weeks]
- physical component of short form 12 [Time frame: it will be measured after 12 weeks]
- mental component of short form 12 [Time frame: it will be measured after 12 weeks]
- beck depression inventory [Time frame: It will be measured after 12 weeks]
- Trait Anxiety Inventory [Time frame: it will be measured after 12 weeks]
- diatolic blood pressure [Time frame: it will be measured after 12 weeks]
- systolic blood pressure [Time frame: it will be measured after 12 weeks]
- cortisol [Time frame: It will be measured after 12 weeks]
- C reactive protein [Time frame: It will be measured after 12 weeks]
- nitric oxide [Time frame: It will be measured after 12 weeks]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- hemodialysis patient (40)
- complain of restless leg syndrome
- non obese patients
Exclusion criteria
- cardiac patients
- chest diseases
- mental diseases
- hepatic diseases
- lower limb orthopedic hurting
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Egypt · 1 center
- faculty of physical therapy Cairo university — Dokki
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06806891 · P.T.REC/012/005557