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K. Srinivassan ¹

Affiliations
1 Dept. of Medical Surgical Nursing, Awadh Madhav College of Nursing Science and Research, Gwalior, IN

Abstract

Living with chronic kidney disease (CKD), the "new silent killer" requires individuals to cope with a myriad of physical and emotional stressors associated with this chronic illness and the resulting dialysis treatments. Thus, the investigator felt the present study provide the information about the knowledge on dietary management of chronic renal failure patients undergoing hemodialysis at selected hospital, Kanchipuram. The design adopted was descriptive research design. Total 30 samples were drawn from dialysis department of Melmaruvathur Adhiparasakthi institute of medical sciences by non- probability convenient sampling technique. The level of knowledge on dietary management was assessed by using structured questionnaires. The data gathered were analyzed by using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings revealed that 20(66.66%) had moderately adequate knowledge, 6(20%) had highly adequate knowledge and 4(13.33%) had inadequate knowledge about dietary management for chronic renal failure. There was significant association between level of knowledge on dietary management with their selected demographic variables like age (15.74), gender (10.07), type of family (12), religion (16.82), and education (23.44). Hence H 1 is accepted for the above mentioned demographic variables. The result of this study showed that most of the patients had moderately and highly adequate knowledge regarding dietary management of chronic renal failure.

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K. Srinivassan ¹

Affiliations
1 Dept.of Medical Surgical Nursing, Awadh Madhav College of Nursing Science and Research, Gwalior, IN

Abstract

Arthritis is not a new disease and much research has been done and is still being done to find a cure. This study was undertaken to find out the effect of structured teaching programme regarding knowledge on arthritis among the selected population at Kadamalaipudhur village, Kanchipuram. The design adopted was quasi experimental (one group pre and posttest) research design.100 samples were drawn from the village. The level of knowledge was assessed by using validated structured questionnaires. Structured teaching programme was administered. Posttest was done on 7th day of intervention. The findings revealed that during pretest 0 (0%) of them had adequate knowledge, 31(31%) of them had moderate knowledge, 69(69%) of them had inadequate knowledge regarding arthritis, whereas in posttest 94(94%) of them had adequate knowledge and 6(6%) of them had moderate knowledge. The pretest mean score was 13.78 with confidence interval of (13.13-14.43) and posttest mean score was 26.22 with confidence interval (25.81-26.63). the calculated t value 32.365 at 0.05 level of significance was significantly higher than the table value 1.96 at 0.05 level of significance which shows that the structured teaching programme was effective in improving the knowledge regarding arthritis. Hence H1 was retained.

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