Effects of Patient and Family Preparation on Self-Care Behaviors and Quality of Life Among Patients Receiving Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis, Nakhonphanom Hospital

Abstract

Objectives : The main purpose was to compare self-care behaviors and quality of life of patient receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in pre-post patient and family preparation.

Materials and method : The study tools including 1. The manual flip image sheet for end stage renal disease patient and family, and 2.Questionnaire of self-care behaviors and quality of life which contains general information, measure of knowledge, attitudes and practice of patient receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. The reliability of self-care behaviors research tools were measured by Kuder-. Richardson KR-20 method at 0.71 and alpha of Cronbach method on quality of life patient at 0.88, respectively. The descriptive statistics analysis can extract in table of the number, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The inferential statistic was used dependent t test to compare mean of self-care behaviors and quality of life score.

Results : The results showed that the patient self-care behaviors and quality of life score can improve after implement the patient and family preparation program. There were statistically significant difference of the patient self-care behaviors and quality of life between pre-post score at p-value 0.001.

Conclusion : The patient and family preparation program can improve patient self-care behaviors and quality of life patients receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.