Participants
Alzheimer’s disease, cognitive disorders
DISORDERS
In this trial, the convenience sampling method was adopted to select 60 patients undergoing hemodialysis. The inclusion criteria were literacy, no history of psychological disorders, age of 18 to 65 years old, and no history of cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease. The participants were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups with 30 members each. The permuted block randomization technique was employed to allocate the participants. The blocks were randomly determined as 2, 4, 6, and 8, whereas a statistician prepared the randomization list. The sampling attrition rate was considered 10%. Based on a similar study [
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