Fostering Self-Empowerment in CKD Patients Through Food Choice Mapping

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Mobile application empowerment approach: Participant will be provided access to the prototype mobile application known for this trial. Participants will be required to utilise the mobile application for 12 days (two 6-consecutive days, twice within 3 months) during a 3-month period. During the agreed dates, participant will need to take photos of their food intake and upload them onto the mobile application for evaluation.

Study summary

This project aims to develop mapping of food choices available for chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients when dining out in Singapore. Following the mapping, a mobile application will be developed based on renal dining out food map mobile application (RENDOFOMAP) and trialed on patients with CKD. The specific aims of the project include:

1. Mapping out food choices suitable for patients with CKD when dining out in Singapore which will eventually be translated into a mobile application incorporating simple AI functionality.
2. To evaluate the impact of using RENDOFOMAP on self-empowerment, quality of life, nutritional status, and serum biochemistry in patients with CKD.
3. To evaluate the acceptability and user experience of RENDOFOMAP

Participants with CKD will use the newly developed mobile application to find out if there is improvement in self-empowerment, quality of life, nutritional status, and serum biochemistry.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Physical Health-Related Quality of Life — Baseline to the end of study at 12-16 weeks
  Physical Health-Related Quality of Life At baseline and Week 12-16, physical health-related quality of life will be assessed using the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12). The Physical Component Summary (PCS) score ranges from 5 to 20, with lower scores indicating better health-related quality of life and higher scores indicating poorer health-related quality of life.
• Mental Health-Related Quality of Life — Baseline to the end of study at 12-16 weeks
  At baseline and Week 12-16, mental health-related quality of life will be assessed using the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12). The Mental Component Summary (MCS) score ranges from 12 to 45, with lower scores indicating better health-related quality of life and higher scores indicating poorer health-related quality of life.
• Modified Nutrition-related Empowerment Scale — Baseline to the end of study at 12-16 weeks
  At baseline and Week 12-16, nutrition-related empowerment will be assessed using a modified version of the Korean Health Empowerment Scale (K-HES). The scale consists of 8 items scored from 1 (Strongly Disagree) to 5 (Strongly Agree). Item scores are summed to generate a total score ranging from 8 to 40, with higher scores indicating greater nutrition-related empowerment and self-management capacity.
• Ease of Adherence to Diet Plan When Eating Out — Baseline to the end of study at 12-16 weeks
  Participants will rate the ease of adhering to their prescribed diet plan when eating out using a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (very difficult) to 5 (very easy). Higher scores indicate greater ease of dietary adherence.
• Food Diary Completion Rate — Baseline to the end of study at 12-16 weeks
  Participant engagement with the nEAT mobile application will be assessed by the proportion of scheduled food diary entries completed during the intervention period. Food diary completion rate (%) = (Number of completed food diary entries ÷ Total number of scheduled food diary entries) × 100. A food diary entry is considered completed when the participant records the required dietary information for the scheduled eating occasion within the nEAT mobile application

Trial sites (1)

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