The Agenda-Setting for Kidney Disease Open Pilot Trial

NCT ID: NCT07221604

Last Updated: 2025-10-28

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

30 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2026-07-31

Study Completion Date

2026-09-30

Brief Summary

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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?

Detailed Description

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In this open pilot, the researchers will administer a novel structured agenda-setting tool (SAS) called Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Topics. The researchers will determine if their procedures for screening eligible participants, administering the intervention, and administering outcome and other questionnaires are appropriate. Learnings from the open pilot will feed forward into procedures in a larger planned pilot stepped wedge feasibility trial.

This study only has one arm, the intervention arm. The intervention, CKD Topics, will be administered as a quality improvement intervention.

Future Directions: This open pilot will inform procedural changes in an upcoming pilot stepped wedge feasibility trial.

Conditions

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Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 4

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Open feasibility pilot trial
Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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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.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Chronic Kidney Disease Structured Agenda-Setting Tool

Intervention Type 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.

Interventions

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Chronic Kidney Disease Structured Agenda-Setting Tool

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.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Adults \>18 years old who have been diagnosed with advanced CKD (stages 4-5).
* Care partners, clinicians and staff supporting these CKD patients who are willing and able to provide informed consent
* English-speaking
* Able to provide informed consent
* Patient must be attending outpatient visits \*(in-person and/or telehealth allowable).

Exclusion Criteria

* Children under 18 years old will not be included
* Non-English-speaking patients and/or care partners
* Patients on dialysis
* Individuals unable or unwilling to provide informed consent
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Dartmouth College

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Catherine Hylas Saunders

Principal Scientist, Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy and Clinical Practice

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Catherine H. Saunders, Assistant Professor of Medicine and of Health Policy, PhD, MPH

Role: CONTACT

603-653-3436

Anne E. Dade, Research Associate, MPP

Role: CONTACT

References

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Other Identifiers

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1K01DK139400

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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STUDY02002598_2

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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