DOI: 10.36347/sasjm.2016.v02i03.003

Pages: Page: 55-63

The population baseline knowledge about the RRT (renal replacement therapy) and its types is important in accepting and choosing one of its types, of course with discussion with doctor. The decision regarding starting dialysis is doctor’s decision, but it needs patient and family cooperation and acceptance. Because of previous bad population experience in last decades regarding dialysis outcome and increased mortality in our city, this acceptance and cooperation is usually weak and the patient does not easily accept the idea of dialysis. This usually delays the dialysis treatment till the patient is toxic enough which makes delayed started dialysis less beneficial with increased mortality. I thought that the education level of patients and their families is key factor for the acceptance of early starting dialysis therapy. A descriptive, cross sectional study performed between first/ November/2013 and first /February/2014. The information collected from two groups of participants .the first group is the general population and the second group is the patient on dialysis. Informative questionnaire was designed to gather the related data. The questionnaire contains sociodemographic and data to assess the participant،s knowledge, educational level and its effect on renal replacement therapy. The data collected from participants in Kirkuk city by direct interview during which a questionnaire was filled. All data collected from 490 participants.