พฤติกรรมการบริโภคอาหารที่มีโพแทสเซียมในผู้ป่วยโรคไตเรื้อรัง

Abstract

: To survey the potassium contained food consumption behavior which performed study CKD patients who received the medical services in Charoensin Hospital, Sakon Nakorn province. Methods: This research was Cross-sectional analytical study. The sample was 280 CKD patients. The data was collected by using the structural interview form which consisted of the personal data, 24-hour recall, frequency of potassium contained food consumption, knowledge, attitude and behavioral health services. Results: The results revealed that 59% of CKD patients were female which age range as 50-59 years (81.07%) and the average was of 53.23 years (SD 5.08). Most of them had comorbidities with diabetes mellitus (33. 21%).The duration CKD was 1 to 2 years (61.07%) and the stage of the disease is early (79.29%).  Conclusion: From this study found that the knowledge of CKD was low and the patients with early stage of CKD consumed potassium less than 2,000 mg of per day which causes of hypokalemia leading to the disease progression. Because of potassium could slow down the deterioration of the kidney. In addition, the data showed the patients with late stage of CKD consumed potassium less than 1,500 mg per day which strongly associated with a higher risk of death.