Estrategia de intervención educativa sobre el nivel de conocimiento en pacientes con Enfermedad Renal Crónica. CMIE Zaruma

Abstract

Abstract:Chronic kidney disease is the progressive, permanent and irreversible loss of the glomerular filtration rate for at least three months. A quasi-experimental study was carried out with the objective of evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention strategy aimed at patients diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease in Zaruma, to assess the level of knowledge about their disease. The population was 40 subjects, the Kidney Disease Questionnaire(KDQ)was applied to them. An educational intervention was carried out. To evaluate the effectiveness, analytical statistics were used, making a comparison between categorical variables using the Wilcoxon test, which is a non-parametric test that compares the mean range of two related samples and determines if there are differences between them. At the beginning of the study, most of the patients had a low knowledge of their disease, the male sex predominated, between 65 and 74 years old, with secondary education and occupation other than housework; post-intervention it was possible to raise the level of knowledge from 42.5% to 75%, with a significance of the Wilcoxon test of <.001a. The implemented intervention proved to be effective.