Development and validation of an end stage kidney disease awareness survey: Item difficulty and discrimination indices.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Lack of awareness for chronic kidney disease (CKD), including end stage kidney disease (ESKD) and their management options is a major impediment to patients being able to select and use home dialysis therapies. While some instruments have been developed to measure CKD awareness, we lack validated instruments to evaluate patients' awareness of ESKD and dialysis modalities. This study is part of multipart project for developing and validating an ESKD-centric disease awareness questionnaire.

Methods

A team of specialty renal care experts developed a 45-items questionnaire encompassing the subdomains of General Kidney Knowledge, CKD Knowledge, and ESKD Knowledge. Item reduction analysis-specifically, calculation of item difficulty and item discrimination index score

SUBMITTER: Orozco T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9462569 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature