What this means
A study plans to test whether a 12-week online exercise and education program is practical for people waiting for kidney transplants. It is still recruiting, so no results are available yet.
Plain-English summary written by an AI model from the registry listing.
- Status
- Recruiting
- Who can join
- Ages 18 and over
- Where
- 2 sites
The science
- Registered title
- Virtual Home-based Physical Pre-habilitation in Kidney Transplant Candidates
- Trial ID
- NCT06089473 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- interventional
- Conditions
- Kidney Disease, End-Stage, Frailty, Transplant;Failure,Kidney
- What is tested
- Intervention Group: Exercise and education., Usual Care Only
- Sponsor
- McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
- Ages
- 18 Years to no maximum
- Dates
- First posted Oct 18, 2023 · updated Dec 3, 2025
Registry summary
The goal of this RCT is to address the feasibility of conducting a 12-week virtual pre-habilitation intervention, which includes exercise and education, in kidney transplant candidates. The intervention also includes a 5-month maintenance phase with independent home exercises (maximum of 8 months of intervention/ended early if the participant undergoes a kidney transplant). The main questions it aims to answer are:
- estimate the proportion of screened patients who meet eligibility criteria
- estimate the proportion of eligible patients who consent to randomization
- estimate the proportion of patients who adhere to the interventions
- estimate follow-up completion rates
- inform the calculation of sample size requirements for a full-scale RCT
- assess the acceptability of the intervention by the participants.
Participants in the control group will receive usual outpatient care.
Sites (2)
- Centre de recherche - Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Research Institute - McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), Montreal, Quebec, Canada