An interventional study of evaluate the psychometric performance of different modalities of hetero-assessment of depressive symptoms by nurses in Depressive Disorders and End-stage Chronic Kidney Disease Treated With Hemodialysis, sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Annecy Genevois. Recruiting at 2 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-20.
Sponsored by Centre Hospitalier Annecy Genevois · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
Hemodialysis is a vital replacement therapy for patients with end-stage chronic kidney disease, but it imposes a heavy, demanding, and prolonged management, associated with a significant deterioration in quality of life. Hemodialysis patients are exposed to numerous physical, organizational, and social constraints, including repeated and prolonged sessions at the center, dietary and fluid restrictions, chronic fatigue, and frequent comorbidities. Therefore, depressive disorders in hemodialysis patients represent a major public health issue.
The literature reports a high prevalence of depressive symptoms among hemodialysis patients, ranging from 22% to 60%, significantly higher than that observed in the general population. These disorders are associated with a significant deterioration in quality of life, increased hospitalizations, lower therapeutic adherence, an increased risk of suicide, and excess mortality. Despite these important clinical consequences, depressive disorders often remain underdiagnosed in hemodialysis.
Current guidelines, including those from the Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS), emphasize the importance of regular quality of life assessments in patients with chronic kidney disease and recommend the use of validated questionnaires. However, they do not formalize a specific operational strategy for screening depressive disorders in routine hemodialysis practice, contributing to their under-evaluation.
The gold standard diagnosis of depressive disorders relies on a structured psychiatric interview, which is difficult to reconcile with the organizational constraints of dialysis centers. Standardized self-assessment tools, such as the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), particularly its depression subscale (HADS-D), have been widely used. The HADS-D has the advantage of excluding somatic symptoms and has been validated in hemodialysis patients.
However, self-assessment relies on the patient's ability to express their subjective experience. Thus, the self-administration of standardized questionnaires in these patients is often challenging due to their age, comorbidities, fatigue, and functional limitations, often necessitating the intervention of healthcare staff. In contrast, registered nurses (IDE) working in hemodialysis possess longitudinal clinical knowledge of patients, acquired over repeated sessions, which can serve as a relevant lever for rapid and standardized screening of depressive symptoms. To date, the diagnostic performance of structured nursing hetero-evaluation remains poorly documented.
The IDE-3D study aims to evaluate the ability of nurses to identify depressive symptoms in hemodialysis patients using structured tools, comparing the nursing hetero-evaluation of the HADS-D with the self-assessment conducted by the patient. It is part of a pragmatic approach aimed at improving the screening of depressive disorders in hemodialysis, structuring the care pathway, and enhancing the integration of mental health into the overall management of hemodialysis patients.
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The only intervention will resulting from the research consists of informing the responsible physician of the patient with an HADS-Depression score ≥ 8 to conduct a complementary clinical assessment and determine the appropriate management, according to the procedures in place at each center.
Other: evaluate the psychometric performance of different modalities of hetero-assessment of depressive symptoms by nurses
Interventional study with minimal risks and constraints. The main objective is to evaluate the psychometric performance of different modalities of hetero-assessment of depressive symptoms by nurses in patients receiving in-center hemodialysis, compared to reference self-assessment tools completed by the patients.
The diagnostic performance of the hetero-assessment
For each patient, two HADS-Depression scores will be collected: One score resulting from the hetero-assessment performed by a nurse responsible for the patient, by filling out the 7 items of the depression subscale of the HADS, completed independently and autonomously, blind to the patient's responses, One score resulting from the self-assessment conducted by the patient, by completing the entire HADS questionnaire, considered as the reference method and completed blind to the nurse's responses. The diagnostic performance of the hetero-assessment by the nurse will be evaluated in terms of sensitivity (Se), specificity (Sp), positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV).
Time frame: From enrollment to the end of intervention (between one week and 2 weeks)
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Started Jun 2026 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Jun 2028, 24 months after the start.
Of 260 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Depressive Disorder, half reached primary completion within 29 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 15 and three quarters within 46. This study's planned 24 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 274 studies reached it within 29 months; a quarter within 15 and three quarters within 46.
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