Contemporary Nursing

Objective To explore and analyze the correlation of disease-related knowledge and self-management ability in the early stage of chronic kidney disease. Methods A total of 102 elderly patients with early chronic kidney disease admitted to our hospital from January 2020 to December 2022 were selected as the subjects of this study. The disease-related knowledge questionnaire scale and the early self-management survey scale of chronic kidney disease were used to clarify the degree of disease-related knowledge and self-management ability of patients, and to analyze the correlation between disease-related knowledge and self-management ability of elderly patients with chronic kidney disease in the early stage. Results Among 102 patients, the self-management ability was moderate; the degree of disease-related knowledge was low; the self-management ability and the early knowledge of elderly chronic kidney disease, P <0.05. Disease-related knowledge was used to explain about 36% of the variation in self-management ability, and the mastery of disease-related knowledge was considered predictive of the patients self-management ability, P <0.05. Conclusion current elderly chronic kidney disease patients for their disease knowledge is relatively poor, in the process of intervention in such patients, patients with targeted health education, improve patients for the disease knowledge and its self management ability, and maximize the development of patients, safeguard the health of patients.

Early stage of elderly chronic kidney disease; Disease-related knowledge; Self-management ability; Correlation