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Five-minute unstructured chats with dialysis patients result in improved phosphorus and albumin outcomes. |
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Loyola Medicine: The technique is called "talking control support therapy.” As patients were undergoing dialysis, researchers stopped by for informal chats. A typical conversation began with small talk, before moving on to general conversation about healthy dialysis lifestyles. Unlike conventional dialysis education, no specific education goals were set. After 12 weeks, 82 percent of the study patients met or exceeded their target blood work goals for albumin and phosphorus, compared with 65 percent before the talking control therapy. And there was a 12 percent increase in patient-satisfaction scores. Results were presented at the National Kidney Foundation 2012 Spring Clinical Meetings.
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