Pedaling while dialysis: a new hope for better sleep and less anxiety?
NCT ID NCT07176403
First seen Jun 26, 2026 · Last updated Jun 26, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether a 12-week aerobic exercise program (cycling) during hemodialysis sessions can improve sleep quality, depression, and anxiety in kidney patients. 100 adults on maintenance dialysis will be split into an exercise group and a control group. The goal is to see if this simple, drug-free intervention can boost mental well-being and dialysis effectiveness.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- intradialytic exercise (aerobic cycling during dialysis)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could offer a simple, drug-free way to improve sleep and mood for people on hemodialysis.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study with no blinding, so results may be influenced by placebo effects. Exercise during dialysis may not be safe or tolerable for all patients.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 100 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2025
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2025
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. ESKD patients on maintenance hemodialysis for more than three months. 2. Age more than 18 years. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Mentally or physically unfit patients or with severe psychiatric illness. 2. Patients who receive any psychotropic medications. 3. Patients with overt ischemic heart disease or cardiac decompensation. 4. Anemic patients (Hb ≤ 8 mg/dl). 5. Patients presented with severe bone pains or muscle weakness secondary to chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD). 6. Patients with advanced lower limbs joints disease. 7. Lower limb amputation.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Faculty of Medicine, Aexandria University
RECRUITINGAlexandria, 21526, Egypt
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