A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge on Dietary Management among Chronic Renal Failure Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis at Selected Hospital

Individuals who are living with chronic kidney disease (CKD), also known as the "new silent killer," are required to deal with a wide variety of physical and emotional stressors that are linked with this chronic illness and the dialysis treatments that are required during therapy. As a result, the investigator believed that the current study would provide information regarding the expertise on dietary management of patients with chronic renal failure who were having hemodialysis at a particular hospital in Kanchipuram. Specifically, a descriptive research strategy was chosen for the study. The non-probability convenient sampling strategy was utilized to collect a total of thirty samples from the dialysis department at the selected hospitals. The utilization of standardized questionnaires allowed for the evaluation of the level of knowledge on the management of food. In order to examine the data that was acquired, both descriptive and inferential statistical methods were utilized. According to the findings, twenty cases (66.66%) had knowledge that was moderately adequate, six cases (20%) had information that was extremely adequate, and four cases (13.33%) had knowledge that was inadequate about the treatment of diet for chronic renal failure. It was shown that there was a strong correlation between the amount of knowledge on dietary management and the demographic characteristics that were selected, such as age (15.74), gender (10.07), type of family (12), religion (16.82), and education (23.44). As a result, Hypothesis 1 is accepted for the demographic factors that were discussed before. The findings of this study indicated that the majority of patients have information that was either moderately adequate or very adequate with regard to the management of chronic renal failure through dietary changes.