The Food Consumption Behavior and Factors Affecting Food Consumption Behavior of Chronic Kidney Disease Patients at Chronic Disease Clinic, Chiang Yuen Hospital, Mahasarakham Province.

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The objectives of this descriptive cross-sectional study were to describe food consumption behaviors and to determine factors affecting food consumption of chronic kidney disease patients attending chronic disease clinic, Chiang Yuen Hospital, Mahasarakham Province. The sample consisted of 237 patients with chronic kidney disease. Data were collected by means of structured interview including personal data, health behaviors, predisposing factors, enabling factors, reinforcing factors and food consumption behavior. The Multiple logistic regression was performed to identify the factors influencing on food consumption behavior.

The results revealed that 55.27% of chronic kidney disease patients were female with aged in the range of 50-59 years (72.15%) and the average age was 54.32 ± 4.54 years. The duration of illness with chronic kidney disease was mostly 1 year at 47.26%. The most of them had comorbidities with diabetes and hypertension (46.58%) with BMI level 1 obesity (BMI = 25.0 – 29.9 kgm2) 41.77%. Regarding health behaviors, there were found that 51.90% of the samples exercised, 56.54% drank alcohol, 59.49% were non-smoker, and 57.80% took herbal medicines or dietary supplements. Factors related to food consumption of chronic kidney disease patients with statistically significant (p-value < 0.05) were alcohol drinking (OR_adj = 2.08, 95% CI=1.12-3.85, p = 0.02) having low level of knowledge (OR_adj = 3.08, 95% CI =1.42-6.68, p = 0.00) and having low level of reinforcing factors (OR_adj = 4.81, 95% CI = 1.88-12.28, p = 0.00).