Determination of Learning Needs of Kidney Patients During Stay in Clinic

This study was planned descriptive and cross-sectional conducted to determine the learning needs of kidney patients during stay in clinic. The study was conducted with 134 patients who accepted the study. Data were collected with prepared by the researches personal information form and “Patient Learning Needs Scale (PLNS)”. Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test and Spearman correlation analysis were performed for statistical analysis. Average age of the patients was 54.52±16.33 years, duration of active disease was 5.5±6.4 years and duration of hospital stay was 6.64±6.52 days. 53% of the patients were female, 77.6% were married, the majority (47.8%) were in primary school, and their economic status (91.0%) was moderate. Age, gender, education, job, economic status were correlated with learning needs (p> 0.05). Average score of the Patient Learning Needs Scale of nephrology patients in the study was 83,12±19,30. When the PLNS subscale scores were examined, life activities (17,94±5,72) and treatment and complications (17,04 ± 5,50) were the highest and situation related emotions (6.58±1.67) were minimum score. Most of the patients (79.1%) demanded education and 41.5% of the subjects stated that they are about the disease. A significant relationship was found between the learning needs scores of the patients and the demand for education (p> 0.05). Most nephrology patients require education. According to Learning Needs Scale of patients, they wanted to get information especially about their life activities, treatment and complications. It is recommended the trainings should be planned in with this priority order taking to individual differences