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Record W4416511398 · doi:10.2196/72352

Sitting Baduanjin Combined With Acupoint Massage on Frailty in Patients Undergoing Maintenance Hemodialysis: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

2025· article· en· W4416511398 on OpenAlex

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueJMIR Research Protocols · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicBiofield Effects and Biophysics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRandomized controlled trialMassageProtocol (science)SittingRandomizationAcupunctureClinical trial

Abstract

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Background: Patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) endure weakness due to prolonged dialysis treatment, such as the continuous decline of muscle strength in patients, which will have varying degrees of impact on human physiological, psychological, and social functions. Effective nonpharmacological interventions can improve their mental health and quality of life (QoL). Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effects of sitting Baduanjin combined with acupoint massage on improving the frailty status of patients undergoing MHD and evaluate whether it can significantly improve their physical activity, alleviate depressive emotions, and comprehensively improve their QoL. Methods: This is a randomized controlled study to be conducted in the Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, comprising 114 patients to be treated using MHD. Patients who meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be randomly divided into 3 groups: the control group will receive only conventional hemodialysis and care, the acupoint massage group will receive acupoint massage treatment in addition to the control group treatment, and the sitting combined with acupoint massage group will receive sitting Baduanjin combined with acupoint massage and the control group treatment. We aim to comprehensively evaluate the clinical efficacy by comparing the FRAIL (Fatigue, Resistance, Ambulation, Illness, and Weight Loss) scale scores, grip strength, 10 times sit-to-stand test, Self-Rating Depression Scale scores, and QoL (Short Form Health Survey Questionnaire) scores before and after 8 weeks of treatment among the 3 groups. Statistical analysis will be conducted using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software (version 25.0; IBM Corporation). Results: The first participant was enrolled on August 8, 2024. As of August 2025, a total of 52 participants have been fully registered, and the intervention is currently in progress. We expect the completion of this trial to occur within the year 2025. Conclusions: The results of this study can provide a scientific basis for the future treatment of patients with asthenia in hemodialysis.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Randomized trial · Consensus signal: Randomized trial
GenreCandidate signal: Protocol · Consensus signal: Protocol
Teacher disagreement score0.021
Threshold uncertainty score0.716

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.081
GPT teacher head0.473
Teacher spread0.392 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it