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Awareness, self-management behaviors, health literacy and kidney function relationships in specialty practice
Radhika Devraj, School of Pharmacy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 62026, United States
Matthew E Borrego, A Mary Vilay, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, United States
Junvie Pailden, College of Arts and Sciences, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL 62026, United States
Bruce Horowitz, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States
Author contributions: Borrego WE, Vilay AM and Horowitz B were involved in study design, assisted with data collection, interpretation of data, revising the manuscript, providing intellectual content of critical importance, and approval of final version; Pailden J (statistician) was contributed to help with data analysis and interpretation, revising the manuscript, providing intellectual content of critical importance and approval of final version; Devraj R was responsible for idea concept, study design, development of data collection tools, data entry and cleaning, interpretation of data, providing intellectual content of critical importance, wrote and revised the manuscript.
Supported by SIUE STEP.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Institutional Review Board and University of New Mexico Institutional Review Board.
Informed consent statement: All study participants provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: None of the authors have any conflicts of interest.
Data sharing statement: Dataset available from the corresponding author at rdevraj@siue.edu. Consent was not obtained for data sharing, but the presented data are anonymized and risk of identification is low.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Radhika Devraj, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, 200 University Park Drive, Suite 250, Edwardsville, IL 62026, Unites States. rdevraj@siue.edu
Telephone: +1-618-6505137 Fax: +1-618-6505152
Received: August 17, 2017
Peer-review started: August 18, 2017
First decision: October 9, 2017
Revised: November 20, 2017
Accepted: December 1, 2017
Article in press: December 1, 2017
Published online: January 6, 2018
Peer-review started: August 18, 2017
First decision: October 9, 2017
Revised: November 20, 2017
Accepted: December 1, 2017
Article in press: December 1, 2017
Published online: January 6, 2018
Core Tip
Core tip: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) awareness has not been examined in a specialty clinic environment. This study examined the associations between CKD awareness, health literacy, CKD self-management behaviors, past performance of self-management behaviors, and kidney function. We found that majority of the participants in our study were aware of having CKD. CKD awareness increased as CKD worsened; however, nearly 40% of patients in CKD stages 1 and 2 and about 6% of patients in CKD stages 3 and 4 were unaware of having CKD. CKD awareness was not related to health literacy, self-management behavior knowledge, or past performance of behaviors.