Fight Fatigue: A Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Walking Intervention to Reduce Fatigue in Adults With ESKD

Recruiting now · Not applicable

Conditions studied: End Stage Renal Disease on Dialysis

In brief

Fight Fatigue is evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a combined progressive muscle relaxation and walking intervention to reduce fatigue for adults with end-stage kidney disease receiving in-center hemodialysis.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07014111

Run by

University of Illinois at Chicago

People needed

40

Starts

2025-09-02

Expected to finish

2027-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2025-09-26

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Diagnosis of ESKD diagnosis and receiving hemodialysis for at least 3 months
• Can read and speak English
• Fatigue measured via visual analogue scale, score ≥4 over the last week
• Able to stand and walk one block
• Has a cell phone that can receive text messages

You may not qualify if…

• Patient's nephrologist refuses for them to participate
• Unstable angina
• Unstable pulmonary disease or pulmonary symptoms that preclude participation
• Lower-extremity amputation without prosthetic (BKA, AKA) -Orthopedic or neurologic condition that would preclude walking or tensing/releasing of muscles-
• Cognitive impairment that, in the judgement of the research team, precludes trial participation
• Participation in the formative phase of the development of Fight Fatigue

Where it is running

• UI Health/University of Illinois Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States (enrolling)

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