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Learning Objective 1: Describe the incidence and prevalence of chronic kidney disease in the older adult population (65+).
Learning Objective 2: Develop a community outreach awareness, education, and screening event for older adults related to chronic kidney disease.
To conduct a pilot study with older adults to investigate their awareness of chronic kidney disease.
Methods:
At a senior center, 37 older adults were asked questions to investigate their knowledge of chronic kidney disease.
- Do you know someone who has have kidney disease?
- Do you have a relative who has kidney disease?
- What is different about their lives compared to those who don’t have kidney disease?
- Which are risk factors for kidney disease?
- What race of people is at greatest risk for kidney disease?
Results:
- Question #1
- 24 knew someone with kidney disease.
- Question #2
- 9 have a relative with kidney disease.
- Question #3
- 10 noticed fatigue, skin darkening, weight loss.
- 30 didn’t know effects of kidney disease.
- Question #4
- 35/37-diabetes is a risk factor.
- 32/37-hypertension is a risk factor.
- 15/37- could be genetic.
- 10/37-old age is a risk factor.
- Question #5
- 12/37-Hispanics were at a greater risk/ didn’t know rationale.
- 5/37- Japanese were not at a greater risk/ didn’t know rationale.
- 9/37-Pacific Islanders were at a greater risk/ didn’t know rationale.
- 35/37-African-Americans were at a greater risk/ didn’t know rationale.
- 5/37-Caucasians were not at a greater risk /didn’t know rationale.
- 8/37-Native Americans were at a greater risk developing/ didn’t know rationale.
- 7/37-Japanese were not at a greater risk/didn’t know rationale.
Conclusion:
Most knew someone or related to someone with kidney disease. Less than 75% knew changes with kidney disease. Although >50% of the participants knew diabetes and hypertension were risk factors, less that 30% knew genetics and older age were risk factors. The participants identified African Americans at a greater risk, but fewer knew the rationale. For the remaining ethnic groups, most didn’t know the risk and didn’t know the rationale.