Abstract:

Purpose: This study was half-experimental in order to determine the impact of education given by nurses on certain parameters and quality of life on diabetic or hypertensive patients diagnosed with chronic kidney failure (KBY). The number of samples was determined by the power analysis and the patients who meet the working criteria were divided into intervention (30) and control (30) groups. The data of the study was collected with the question form and the scale of Kidney Disease Quality Of Life SF-36 (KDQOL-36). KDQOL contains five sub-dimensions. Points in each size vary between 0 and 100. The high score indicates that the quality of life is increasing. At the beginning and end of the study, the question form and KDQOL were applied to both groups. Patients in the intervention group were trained on the basis of the educational library. Patients were also informed about their results by telephone call and the training was repeated. In the control group, no application was performed except the routine of the clinic. Result: After training, there was no significant difference between the two groups except calcium in terms of blood parameters. However, after training, the intervention group’s quality of life increased with the average of all sub-dimensional points (p<0.05), while in the control group, all sub-dimensional points, except the symptom sub-dimensional points, fell. According to the results obtained from the study, patients with diabetes or hypertensive KBY should be trained to improve their quality of life and evaluate their clinical indicators with long-term follow-up.

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