title: Patient education in peritoneal dialysis: an observational study in Italy.
abstract: This observational study describes the characteristics of the education programmes used in Italian PD-centres, evaluating a possible relationship between programmes and peritonitis rates. The survey involved 150 non-paediatric public dialysis centres in Italy. The data were collected by a questionnaire and evaluated with SPSS software. Descriptive statistics of synthesis were calculated, Kruskal-Wallis, Wilcoxon's test were used to verify the differences in the replies, and association between variables was tested with Pearson correlation and Pearson's chi2 test. 120 dialysis centres took part in the survey and reported a median incidence of peritonitis of 1/29 months. Training occurs in all the centres, while pre-dialysis education, home visits and re-training take place in 38.3%, 50% and 44.2% respectively. A lower peritonitis rates proves to be correlated to these activities rather than to presence of specialised personnel, to ratio nurses-patients or training time.
authors.affiliation: San Giacomo Apostolo Hospital Castelfranco Veneto, Italy. g.bordin@libero.it
authors.forename: Gabriella
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bordin
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Casati
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sicolo
authors.forename: Nicoletta
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zuccherato
authors.forename: Vincenzina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Eduati
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration; D004521:Educational Measurement; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006792:House Calls / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods; D007558:Italy; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D017145:Models, Educational; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010530:Peritoneal Dialysis / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology; D010538:Peritonitis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D011159:Population Surveillance; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires