Nutritional Knowledge Among Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis in Al Muthana City: A Cross Sectional Study

Abstract

Objective: To assess the nutritional knowledge of patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis regarding renal appropriate diet Patients and methods. A total of 50 patients study 24 (48%) of them were male and 26 (52%) were females from the haemodialysis unit ( HD) were included in this descriptive cross sectional study conducted from August 2022 to January 2023 ,their knowledge was assess by a well prepared questionnaire contain the main renal affecting items beside the use of subjective global assessment( SGA),anthropometric measures and Body mass index. Results: The highest percentage of participants knowledge was about fluid requirements in hemodialysis patients which was ( 84%) followed by knowledge about sodium sources in diet and its health effects about ( 68%) ,the least knowledge was about phosphorus related information which was only about (28%) , Diabetes and hypertension were the most common etiologies of ESRD ( 22%) and (20 %), respectively,there were significant association (P< 0.05(P > 0.05)between period of dialysis and BMI, knowledge of Malnutrition prevalence in HD patients and Phosphorus health effects .With p value of ( 0.29), ( 0.04)and ( 0.04)respectively.in the other hand, the insignificant association(P > 0.05) was between period of dialysis and knowledge about anemia causes in HD patients and safe portion size for them with p values of ( 0.27), ( 0.72) respectively, Conclusion: There is a variable degrees of nutritional knowledge among paitents under study ,unrelated to educational level so the mass training of health staff in order to provide the appropriate dietary informations and individualized diet plan counseling to the patients as well as their relatives will definitely improve the outcome .