Table 2.
Intervention group knowledge, confidence, and modality choice before and after the care program (n=22).a
| Survey item | Preeducation | Posteducation | P valueb | |
| Percent of questions correct on survey of 7 knowledge-based questions (%), mean (SD) | 52 (29) | 94 (14) | <.001 | |
| First intended type of dialysis, n (%) |
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Home hemodialysis | 2 (9) | 3 (14) |
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Peritoneal dialysis | 6 (27) | 12 (55) |
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In-center hemodialysis | 4 (18) | 5 (23) |
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I don’t know | 10 (45) | 2 (9) |
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| Agreed or strongly agreed with the following statement, n (%) |
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I am afraid that my treatment would not be as good if I was responsible for my dialysis | 5 (23) | 3 (14) | .72 |
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I am confident that I could learn how to do self-care dialysis | 15 (68) | 19 (86) | .22 |
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I don’t understand self-care dialysis | 9 (41) | 3 (14) | .08 |
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I don’t see the point of doing dialysis myself when I can have a nurse do it | 5 (23) | 6 (27) | >.99 |
aLimited to n=22 intervention group patients with both pre- and posteducation results.
bFrom Wilcoxon signed rank test for average percent correct, exact symmetry tests for intended type of dialysis, and McNemar chi-square tests for all others.