EUSUREX
(EUropean Survey on Renal Exercise)
Exercise training and physical rehabilitation in patients with chronic kidney disease in Europe – what is the problem? – A European survey study
Purpose:
To identify potential barriers for integrating exercise training into regular therapy for patients with chronic kidney disease in different European countries.
To use this knowledge of the importance of different barriers to promote the use of exercise training as therapy and to target the respective levels.If there are obvious differences at the level of the health care system, positive examples from one country could be used as a lever in another country.
Specific aims:
•To investigate availability of physical activity/exercise training
.To investigate resources for physical activity/exercise training therapy
•To investigate prescription patterns of physical activity/exercise training
•To investigate implementation patterns of physical activity/exercise training
•To analyse possible barriers for physical activity/exercise training within Europe at the following levels:
•Health care system
•Renal unit
•Physician
•Nurse
•Patient
Participating countries
Belgium: Amaryllis van Craenenbroeck
Estonia: Mai Ots-Rosenberg
Germany: Clemens Grupp
Greece: Evangelia Kouidi
Italy: Adamasco Cupisti, Carmine Zoccali, Francesca Mallamaci, Giovanni Tripepi,
Sweden: Naomi Clyne
A virtual multimodal platform for exercise training, nutritional counselling and psychological and cognitive support in patients on hemodialysis – an EU ERASMUS+ supported project.
Purpose:
GoodRENal’s purpose is to create a multimodal virtual reality (VR) platform to facilitate exercise training during hemodialysis, adequate nutrition and psychological well-being and cognitive ability.
Specific aims:
Firstly to identify barriers and facilitators as perceived by patients, their informal caregivers and their healthcare personell.Secondly to create a virtual reality platform with computer ”games” to further exercise training nutritional competence and better wellbeing.Thirdly, to promote this VR platform through peer led educational activities in patient groups and healtcare staff groupsFinally to test all aspects of the VR platform in a multi-centre randomised control trial in patioents on hemodialsysi in Spain, Greece, Belgium and Sweden.
Participating Centres:
| Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis, Greece | Evangelia Kouidi |
| Hospital de Manises, Spain | Alicia García-Testal |
| Skåne University Hospital, Skåne Läns Landsting,, Sweden | Naomi Clyne |
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Universitat De Valencia, Spain Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Spain KU Leuven, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium |
Patricia Mesa-Gresa Jose Antonio Lozano-Quilis Carla Avesani Eva Segura-Ortí Amaryllis Van Craenenbroeck |