Effectiveness of nurse led intervention on kidney transplant recipients in a tertiary care hospital- a randomized controlled trial

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Abstract Recipients of kidney transplantation have a better outcome in terms of life expectancy and quality of life but are required to follow strict adherence to therapy and lifestyle modification. It was a prospective randomized controlled, parallel group, interventional, single-centre trial with two arms to assess the effectiveness of nurse led intervention on self care behaviour, psychological symptoms and quality of life among kidney transplant recipients (registry no. CTRI/2018/12/016630, www.ctri.nic.in). It comprised of 120 kidney transplant recipients randomized to receive either standard care (N=60) or standard care plus nurse led intervention (N=60). Outcome measures were assessed at baseline and at 3 months and 6 months post randomization. The mean age of participants was 40.05±10.91 years in experimental and 39.45± 10.09 years in control group. Baseline characteristics in the groups were comparable. Nurse led intervention showed significant difference in the self care behaviour [self care practice (F= 28.30, p