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Knowledge on risk factors for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) among adult patients
attending hemodialysis at Muhimbili National Hospital
Adam Malaika
Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania
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hronic kidney disease (CKD) is a major public health
problem in the nation, the burden of chronic kidney
disease is rising countrywide, as shown by increases in
attributable deaths and prevalence of end-stage kidney
disease for example on November 2018 the Patients on
dialysis were 224, 242 on December and 251 on January
2019 at Muhimbili national hospital (Muhimbili national
hospital medical report dialysis unit 2018/2019). Chronic
kidney disease and its complications, which involve most
organ systems, can be prevented, but awareness and use of
accurate methods are needed to enable timely diagnosis.
The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge of
risk factors associated with chronic kidney disease. The study
was conducted at Muhimbili National Hospital from October
2018 toMay 2019 in Tanzania from adult patients undergoing
haemodialysis. Following consent, participants were studied
in their clinics while doing dialysis. Random sampling on bed
side was done to obtain patients and provide them with
questionnaire. Total population included in the study was180
and those who were critically ill were not included in the
study.
The age group 45–70 years constituted almost 59.4% of the
respondents. This implies that the prevalence of chronic
kidney disease is higher in elderly people than in the general
population. Our results also suggest that men had a higher
prevalence of CKD than women, in the study 124 were men
(68.9%), 56 were female (31.1%). It was found that 130 of
the respondents had never heard about chronic renal failure
before being diagnosed (72.2%) and only 50 (27.8%) patients
heard about the disease before suffering with CKD (27.8%).
Eighty eight percent of the patients were not aware on the
things that lead to chronic renal failure and thus only twelve
percent knew some of the risk factors associated with the
disease.
Therefore the clinical based study for adult patients
undergoing haemodialysis at Muhimbili national hospital
has shown limited knowledge on the risk factors associated
with chronic kidney disease. For that case there is need
for government to have programs coupled with nurses to
increase awareness and understanding of chronic disease
risk factors, the programs formulated should have alternative
ways to see how can reach all required age group all over the
country in which the population can meet her healthcare
needs, National health insurance fund should look another
way to improve their services especially for the first users
who are told to wait until one year for the card to grow then
start functioning. Finally, our assessment of local attitudes
suggested that such public health efforts would be well
received.
e:
adamkondela7@gmail.comJ Intensive Crit Care Nurs | Volume 2