Abstract

ASSESSMENT OF CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE PATIENTS' AWARENESS ABOUT DISEASE AND HEMODIALYSIS COMPLICATIONS IN ALHASA REGION OF SAUDI ARABIA

Dr. Amal Khaleel Abu Alhommos* and Fahad Sami Al-Fahaid

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) defined as abnormalities of kidney structure or function, present for more than three months, with implications for health. Therefore, if this happen, it will leading to complications as electrolytes imbalance, increase blood pressure, anemia, renal osteodystrophy and dialysis at end stage renal disease (ESRD). The primary purpose for this study is to evaluate the patients’ awareness for CKD, hemodialysis and their complications. This study is questionnaire-based survey. A total of fifty patients are conducted to evaluate their awareness about the disease and possible complications of chronic kidney disease and hemodialysis between 23 November 2014 to 25 December 2014. The evaluation of the patients awareness was performed by distributing the designed questionnaire in one center (King Fahad Hospital) in AlHasa. Fifty patients completed the questionnaires and included in the analysis by using excel program. Therfore, those patients had a higher awareness with 46% about hemodialysis complications but low awareness with 46% in the chronic renal disease complications. Our study found that the patients’ awareness about their complications related to chronic kidney disease was higher than their awareness about complications related to hemodialysis due to deficiency in patient counseling program and low availability of medical information sources.

Keywords: Awareness, Chronic kidney disease, Hemolysis and complications.