Table 3.
Quality of the decision
| Statements | Total (n = 148) |
Home-based treatment (n = 121) | Hospital-based treatment (n = 24) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge items | 1. Peritoneal dialysis is a treatment that takes 30 min once a day | 82% | 86% | 75% |
| 2. You need a specific room for dialysis | 78% | 81% | 63% | |
| 3. I can eat and drink whatever I like when I am on any type of dialysis | 68% | 69% | 58% | |
| 4. I can go on holiday if I am on dialysis | 96% | 97% | 96% | |
| 5. Dialysis is usually only needed for a few months | 95% | 96% | 92% | |
| 6. Home haemodialysis is suitable for people who want to take responsibility for their own treatment | 74% | 75% | 67% | |
| Total knowledge score | 82% | 84% | 75% | |
| Readiness items | 7. I know the options available to me | 97% | 98% | 96% |
| 8. I understand the options available to me | 99% | 99% | 100% | |
| 9. I am aware of the advantages of each option | 93% | 95% | 88% | |
| 10. I am aware of the disadvantages of each option | 88% | 88% | 83% | |
| 11. I know how I feel about each option | 73% | 75% | 67% | |
| 12. I can imagine what it would be like to live with each option | 68% | 69% | 71% | |
| Total readiness score | 86% | 87% | 84% |
Three patients were undecided, and they are included in the total sample but not in the home-based sample or the hospital-based sample