eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Nursing Research 2378-5586 2018-07-02 6 5 263 272 10.12691/ajnr-6-5-7 AJNR2018657 article Marwa Mohammad Abd Elbaky 1 Safaa Mohammed Zaki 2 Naglaa Mohammed Amin 3 Rasha Mohammed Nagib Ali tamem.ali23@yahoo.com 4 Lecturer of Critical Care Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University, Egypt DLecturer of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University, Egypt Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University, Egypt Lecturer of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Minia University Background: CKD patients received intradialytic rehabilitation program developed improvement in their general health. Exercise also improve solute removal which increase the HD efficiency. Aim: to evaluate the impact of intradialytic rehabilitation program on general health of CKD patients. Design: Quasi experimental. Setting: The study conducted at hemodialysis unit of Minia urology hospital. Sampling: 60 patients divided in two groups 30 for each. Results: more than half of both groups were female. More than half of both group were diabetic and hypertensive. Mean age of both groups were (39.73 ± 8.17) & (40.00 ± 8.27). The 6 MWT was lower in the control group (325.3 ±24.1, 310.6 ±18.3 & 308 ±17.8) at the three observations than the study (352.3 ±46.8, 393.8 ±78.4 & 448 ±26.9). Small percentage of the rehabilitation group experienced dyspnea (16.6 % and 26 %). The study group showed improvement in mean serum creatinine (4.85± 0.54 & 4.58±0.54) than the control group (5.58± 0.68 & 5.58± 0.68). After rehabilitation program half of the study had low depression and only (13.3%) of them had high depression level. Conclusion: Intradialytic rehabilitation program for CKD patients enhance their activities of daily living abilities which improves their psychological health status. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajnr/6/5/7/ajnr-6-5-7.pdf intradialytic rehabilitation program general health and chronic kidney disease