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Volume 27, Issue 131, January 2023

Knowledge and familiarity of chronic kidney disease risk factors among Saudi populations

Faisal Alhomayani¹, Shmoukh Althomali², Ibrahim Alkhalaf³, Shahad Alghanmi⁴, Asmaa Albuhairy⁵, Entedab Alyami⁶, Ghadah Alatawi⁵, Abdulhameed Sarriyah⁷, Jehan Sarriyah⁸, Afnan Abdaljabbar Almurashi⁹

¹Assistant Professor and Consultant nephrologist, AST accredited Transplant nephrologist, Head of Internal medicine department in medical college, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia
²Medical intern, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia
³Medical student, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia
⁴Medical student, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
⁵Medical student, Tabuk University, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
⁶Medical student, Najran University, Najran, Saudi Arabia
⁷Internal medicine resident, King Faisal Medical Complex, Taif city, Saudi Arabia
⁸Internal medicine resident, King Abdulaziz Specialist Hospital, Taif city, KSA
⁹General physician, Ibn Sina Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

ABSTRACT

Background: (CKD) is a complex disorder that results in an excessive buildup of fluid and waste in the blood, which causes the kidneys to be unable to work correctly due to structural or functional damage. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate public understanding of chronic renal disease risk factor among adults in Saudi population by using information gathered from general Saudi population. Methodology: This is a cross sectional study involved a total of 1111 participants from the kingdom of Saudi Arabia above eighteen years of age for both genders. The data was analysed with the help of Microsoft excel and SPSS. Results: The study included 1111 participants 67.9% females and 32.1% males. 23.7% of participants reported that they had a family-member with kidney disease, in 51% of them family-member was from first class. 71.6% reported moderate knowledge, 17.5% low knowledge and only 11% reported high knowledge. 44.9% reported moderate attitude followed by 39.9% low attitude and only 15.2% reported high attitude score. Conclusion: We concluded from the current research that the participants had good understanding of CKDs and that the results were similar to certain studies conducted in Saudi Arabia and better than other studies from different countries. In addition, individuals in our study indicated a positive attitude toward CKDs, which was consistent with other studies.

Keywords: Chronic kidney disease, CKD, Prevalence, Knowledge, Saudi Arabia.