Efficacy Trial of a Mobile Application for Fluid Intake Management in Patients Receiving Chronic Hemodialysis Therapy
Michael Rocco, Marion Rigaud, Carole Ertel, Greg Russell, Juliane Zemdegs, Mariacristina Vecchio · 2026
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Michael Rocco and co-authors trialled a phone app meant to help dialysis patients drink less between sessions, a behavior with real stakes. Their 2026 study starts from a known pattern: patients who gain too much weight from fluid between treatments face more illness and higher death rates.
Adults on chronic hemodialysis whose average gain topped 3.5 percent of body weight were recruited from clinics in central North Carolina. They were trained on an app that logs fluid intake and adds goal setting, prompts, and feedback, and asked to use it daily for eight weeks. Weight gain before and after the program was compared in this pre-post design, run without a separate control group.
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| CREATOR | Michael Rocco, Marion Rigaud, Carole Ertel, Greg Russell, Juliane Zemdegs, Mariacristina Vecchio |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32276 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |