Provision of renal-specific nutrition knowledge for changing dietary practice in Bangladeshi hemodialysis patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Studies show that provision of nutrition knowledge help renal patients make informed food choices. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of nutrition knowledge for changing dietary practice among Bangladeshi dialysis patients.

Methods

Following development of a renal-specific nutrition booklet, a pilot study was conducted among 50 hemodialysis patients from a single dialysis setting. Demographic, anthropometric, clinical, biochemical, dietary data, and a 10-item MCQ on renal-specific nutrition information were collected before and 3 months after the provision of the booklet.

Results

52% of the participants were male, 54% had twice weekly dialysis, age 53 ± 12 years, and dialysis vintage was 46 ± 25 months. Serum potassium and phosphorous, dietary potassium

SUBMITTER: Rahman T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10194273 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature