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Clinical Effectiveness of MyNutriKidney®
Sponsor: Universiti Putra Malaysia
Summary
This study is a 6-month, pragmatic, multi-center, sequentially recruited, stratified, open-label randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted in Malaysia. It aims to determine the clinical effectiveness of a culturally adapted, gamified mobile health app (MyNutriKidney®) supplementing standard care, compared to standard care alone, for improving dietary self-management among 200 adults with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) stages 3-5. Participants will be randomly assigned (1:1, stratified by age and education) into either (i) the intervention group (MyNutriKidney® app + standard care) or (ii) the control group (standard care, including routine dietary counseling and printed materials). The co-primary outcomes are changes in Dietary Adherence (measured by CKD Diet Score) and Nutrition Literacy (measured by NLS score) from baseline to 6 months.
Official title: Clinical Effectiveness of MyNutriKidney® for Dietary Self-management in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
200
Start Date
2025-07-01
Completion Date
2027-02-01
Last Updated
2025-05-04
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Counseling
Subjects in the both arms will receive individualized dietetic counseling as the standard dietetic care in Malaysia
Renal Diet App
Individualized dietetic counseling aided with a newly developed renal diet app for educative purpose and aiding tool to enhance the dietary adherence among CKD patients. Training on the use of the app will be provided to the subjects prior to the commencement of the intervention. Subjects will be trained on the use of the home screen, icons, feedback screens, the process of entering dietary and fluid intake data and selecting portion sizes. Subjects are considered as competent users when they could correctly record the foods and drinks with correct portion size eaten in the past 24 hours and successfully save the data.
Printed Nutrition Pamphlet
After the counseling session, a standardized renal nutrition pamphlet prepared by dietitians from Universiti Putra Malaysia and Hospital Serdang will be given for patient's educative purpose. Since the mobile application is intended for patient's education and self-monitoring (food diary) purposes, and thus, to ensure the comparability between intervention and control groups, the patients in control group will be trained to record their diet intakes manually using the recommended approach 3-day diet records. Nutritional feedback or advices on the diet records will be given to the participants during follow up sessions.
Locations (1)
Sultan Idris Shah Hospital, Serdang
Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia