Effectiveness of Health Counselling on Self-care Practices among Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis: A Qausi Experimental Study

Abstract

Background: Kidneys are the organs that perform various functions to clean the blood and remove excess water from the body and help in maintaining the chemical balance in our body. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) occurs when the kidneys are mutilated or cannot clean blood as healthy kidneys. Hemodialysis is done to remove waste electrolytes from blood. Methodology: Quasi experimental time series research design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of health counselling on self-care practices among CKD patients undergoing hemodialysis in selected hospital of Dehradun, Uttarakhand. Simple Random Sampling was used to select total 68 CKD patients who were undergoing hemodialysis. A Structured practice checklist regarding self-care practice containing 38 items was administered to collect the data. Health counselling was given after pretest on day 1st followed by post test on 7th, 15th and 30th day. Result: The health counselling on self-care practices of CKD Patients undergoing Hemodialysis was significantly effective in improving self-care practices as mean of self-care practices score of study participants at pre-test, on 7th day, 15th day and 30th day after intervention. There was significant increase in the self-care practices of study participant, repeated measure ANOVA showed F value was 97 and p value was 0.000. This showed that there was significant improvement in self-care practice, therefore the health counselling was effective. Conclusion: The study concluded that if health care professionals collaborate and identify the needs of CKD Patients undergoing hemodialysis and provide them health counselling regarding self-care practices, they will have better self-care practices