Table 5.
Connection Between the Subjective Sufficiency of Knowledge Processed in Patient Education and Patients’ Background Factors
| Dimensions | General Sufficiency Mean (SD) |
Bio-physiological Mean (SD) |
Functional Mean (SD) |
Social Mean (SD) |
Experiential Mean (SD) |
Ethical Mean (SD) |
Financial Mean (SD) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Background Factors | n | |||||||
| Safety of carea | ||||||||
| Not at all–somewhat | 45 | 2.96 (0.55) | 3.29 (0.55) | 2.96 (0.61) | 2.93 (0.62) | 2.50 (0.85) | 3.00 (0.77) | 2.72 (0.88) |
| Very safe | 106 | 3.40 (0.49) | 3.61 (0.42) | 3.42 (0.53) | 3.35 (0.58) | 2.92 (0.87) | 3.48 (0.63) | 3.31 (0.79) |
| p-value | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | |
| Confidentiality of carea | ||||||||
| Not at all–somewhat | 25 | 2.84 (0.62) | 3.14 (0.59) | 2.80 (0.68) | 2.72 (0.74) | 2.54 (0.88) | 2.88 (0.77) | 2.69 (0.98) |
| very confidential | 118 | 3.36 (0.48) | 3.60 (0.42) | 3.37 (0.53) | 3.34 (0.52) | 2.83 (0.88) | 3.42 (0.65) | 3.25 (0.79) |
| p-value | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | 0.0006 | 0.1528 | 0.0004 | 0.0030 | |
| Treatment formb | ||||||||
| Predialysis | 42 | 3.12 (0.65) | 3.36 (0.57) | 3.17 (0.68) | 3.09 (0.78) | 2.73 (0.95) | 3.28 (0.80) | 2.63 (0.95) |
| PD | 71 | 3.32 (0.52) | 3.56 (0.46) | 3.33 (0.59) | 3.21 (0.59) | 2.87 (0.85) | 3.36 (0.72) | 3.38 (0.74) |
| HHD | 39 | 3.31 (0.43) | 3.56 (0.41) | 3.30 (0.48) | 3.38 (0.42) | 2.73 (0.87) | 3.32 (0.58) | 3.24 (0.72) |
| p-value | 0.1464 | 0.0805 | 0.4003 | 0.1089 | 0.6392 | 0.8596 | <0.0001 | |
| Gendera | ||||||||
| Men | 96 | 3.36 (0.48) | 3.57 (0.42) | 3.38 (0.51) | 3.30 (0.56) | 2.92 (0.82) | 3.48 (0.62) | 3.22 (0.82) |
| Women | 59 | 3.13 (0.62) | 3.42 (0.57) | 3.13 (0.67) | 3.12 (0.68) | 2.61 (0.94) | 3.10 (0.78) | 3.00 (0.91) |
| p-value | 0.0179 | 0.0896 | 0.0136 | 0.0878 | 0.0400 | 0.0010 | 0.1262 | |
| Received written educational materiala | ||||||||
| Yes | 138 | 3.30 (0.55) | 3.54 (0.47) | 3.31 (0.58) | 3.25 (0.63) | 2.82 (0.90) | 3.35 (0.71) | 3.14 (0.86) |
| No | 9 | 2.90 (0.56) | 3.22 (0.62) | 2.89 (0.73) | 2.81 (0.47) | 2.56 (0.55) | 3.19 (0.77) | 2.76 (0.87) |
| p-value | 0.0370 | 0.0535 | 0.0300 | 0.0364 | 0.3841 | 0.4928 | 0.1981 | |
| Significant others’ participation in educationa | ||||||||
| Yes | 58 | 3.32 (0.51) | 3.57 (0.44) | 3.33 (0.54) | 3.29 (0.58) | 2.89 (0.90) | 3.39 (0.73) | 3.20 (0.79) |
| No | 97 | 3.24 (0.56) | 3.49 (0.51) | 3.26 (0.62) | 3.20 (0.64) | 2.75 (0.87) | 3.31 (0.69) | 3.10 (0.89) |
| p-value | 0.3791 | 0.3286 | 0.4567 | 0.3975 | 0.3594 | 0.4820 | 0.4921 | |
| Searched information by oneselfa | ||||||||
| Yes | 123 | 3.27 (0.56) | 3.50 (0.50) | 3.26 (0.61) | 3.24 (0.62) | 2.82 (0.88) | 3.34 (0.70) | 3.17 (0.84) |
| No | 29 | 3.25 (0.49) | 3.57 (0.43) | 3.35 (0.50) | 3.16 (0.63) | 2.67 (0.88) | 3.32 (0.77) | 2.94 (0.93) |
| p-value | 0.8428 | 0.5021 | 0.4665 | 0.5726 | 0.4142 | 0.8759 | 0.2041 | |
| Current healthc | r=0.11567 | r=0.19463 | r=0.09028 | r=0.11905 | r=−0.00245 | r=0.0.9858 | r=0.12544 | |
| p-value | 0.1531 | 0.0170 | 0.2655 | 0.1454 | 0.9769 | 0.2254 | 0.1248 | |
| Agec | r=−0.02844 | r=−0.08050 | r=−0.01858 | r=−0.04497 | r=−0.04886 | r=0.05342 | r=0.01258 | |
| p-value | 0.7254 | 0.3258 | 0.8186 | 0.5822 | 0.5623 | 0.5105 | 0.8778 | |
Notes: at-test; bANOVA; cPearson correlation coefficient.
Abbreviations: SD, standard deviation; PD, peritoneal dialysis; HHD, home hemodialysis; r, Pearson correlation coefficient.