Table 2.
Overall characteristics of self-management interventions
| Variable | Intervention count (n=45) |
| Intervention topics | |
| Diet/nutrition | 29 |
| General CKD knowledge | 18 |
| Other (ie, advanced care planning, meditation) | 18 |
| Medication | 17 |
| Modalities | 13 |
| Physical activity | 13 |
| Comorbidities | 11 |
| Symptom management | 6 |
| Lifestyle | 5 |
| Mode of delivery | |
| Face to face (ie, group, one-on-one) | 36 |
| Multiple modes | 32 |
| 29 | |
| Distance (ie, telephone, email) | 13 |
| Digital (ie, DVD, PowerPoint, audio recording) | 8 |
| Electronic (ie, website, mobile application) | 7 |
| Type of providers | |
| Other* | 25 |
| Nurse/nurse practitioner | 22 |
| Dietitian | 14 |
| Multiple providers | 13 |
| Social worker | 6 |
| Physician/primary care physician | 6 |
| Nephrologist/nephrology fellows | 5 |
| Patient volunteer/mentor | 4 |
| Pharmacist | 1 |
| Location of intervention | |
| Outpatient | 23 |
| Not specified | 12 |
| Community (non-clinic)† | 10 |
| Patient home | 10 |
| Multiple locations | 7 |
| Inpatient | 1 |
| Intervention languages | |
| Not Specified | 24 |
| English | 10 |
| Multiple languages | 7 |
| Mandarin | 4 |
| Spanish | 3 |
| Taiwanese | 3 |
| Dutch | 2 |
| Cantonese | 1 |
| French | 1 |
| Greek | 1 |
| Italian | 1 |
| Japanese | 1 |
| Swedish | 1 |
| Vietnamese | 1 |
| Intervention development | |
| Use of framework or theory | 9 |
| Codesigned with patients | 4 |
*Other providers: Trained research assistant, lay health worker, Bengali worker, Educators (health, cook, diabetic), online tool, physician assistant, exercise physiologist, technician, psychologist, employment expert, instructor, interpreter, physiotherapist, patient, principal investigator.
†Community: gym, grocery store, "study room".
CKD, chronic kidney disease.