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PATIENT EDUCATION IN PERITONEAL DIALYSIS: AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY IN ITALY
Author(s) -
Bordin Gabriella,
Casati Monica,
Sicolo Nicola,
Zuccherato Nicoletta,
Eduati Vincenzina
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of renal care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1755-6686
pISSN - 1755-6678
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-6686.2007.tb00067.x
Subject(s) - medicine , observational study , peritoneal dialysis , descriptive statistics , wilcoxon signed rank test , incidence (geometry) , peritonitis , kruskal–wallis one way analysis of variance , dialysis , mann–whitney u test , statistics , physics , mathematics , optics
This observational study describes the characteristics of the education programmes used in Italian PD‐centres, evaluating a possible relationship between programmes and peritonitis rates. The survey involved 150 non‐paediatric public dialysis centres in Italy. The data were collected by a questionnaire and evaluated with SPSS software. Descriptive statistics of synthesis were calculated, Kruskal‐Wallis, Wilcoxon's test were used to verify the differences in the replies, and association between variables was tested with Pearson correlation and Pearson's X 2 test. 120 dialysis centres took part in the survey and reported a median incidence of peritonitis of 1/29 months. Training occurs in all the centres, while pre‐dialysis education, home visits and re‐training take place in 38.3%, 50% and 44.2% respectively. A lower peritonitis rates proves to be correlated to these activities rather than to presence of specialised personnel, to ratio nurses‐patients or training time.