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Improving management of needle distress during the journey to dialysis through psychological education and training—the INJECT study feasibility pilot protocol

Overview of attention for article published in Pilot and Feasibility Studies, February 2022
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Title
Improving management of needle distress during the journey to dialysis through psychological education and training—the INJECT study feasibility pilot protocol
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Pilot and Feasibility Studies, February 2022
DOI 10.1186/s40814-022-00989-2
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G. Radisic, E. Duncanson, R. Le Leu, K. L. Collins, A. L. J. Burke, J. K. Turner, A. Chur-Hansen, F. Donnelly, K. Hill, S. McDonald, L. Macauley, S. Jesudason

Abstract

Needle-related distress is a common yet poorly recognised and managed problem among haemodialysis (HD) patients. The aim of this pilot study is to test the feasibility and acceptability of the INJECT Intervention-an innovative psychology-based intervention to empower patients to self-manage needle distress with the support of dialysis nurses. This investigator-initiated, single-arm, non-randomised feasibility study will take place in a large dialysis service in Adelaide, Australia. Participants will include patients aged ≥ 18 years, commencing or already receiving maintenance HD, recruited through dialysis physicians and nursing staff as individuals believed to be at risk of needle distress. They will be screened for inclusion using the Dialysis Fear of Injection Questionnaire (DFIQ) and enrolled into the study if the score is ≥ 2. The multi-pronged intervention encompasses (i) psychologist review, (ii) patient self-management program and (iii) nursing education program. The primary aim is to evaluate feasibility and acceptability of the intervention from patient and dialysis nurse perspectives, including recruitment, retention, engagement with the intervention and completion. Secondary exploratory outcomes will assess suitability of various tools for measuring needle distress, evaluate acceptability of the nursing education program and measure cannulation-related trauma and vascular access outcomes. The results will inform the protocol for larger trials addressing needle distress in HD patients. Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR): ACTRN12621000229875, approved 4 April 2021, https://www.anzctr.org.au/ .

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Country Count As %
Unknown 35 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 14%
Professor 3 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 9%
Other 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 15 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 11 31%
Psychology 3 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Social Sciences 1 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 18 51%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 February 2022.
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#13,603,191
of 23,063,209 outputs
Outputs from Pilot and Feasibility Studies
#587
of 1,048 outputs
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#214,449
of 504,817 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Pilot and Feasibility Studies
#31
of 60 outputs
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