Level of knowledge of patients with Chronic Kidney Disease about their disease in Barranquilla Colombia

Objective: Determine the level of knowledge that patients with CKD have about their disease whom attend a nephrology service at a health institution. Methodology: A descriptive transversal study was carried out, a sample size of 50 patients with CKD was chosen via convenience sampling; the Spanish version of the Kidney Disease Questionnaire was utilized, statistical software SPSS (ver. 22 Universidad Simon Bolivar license) was used for data analysis. Results: A higher incidence was found in men (64%) compared to women (36%), the majority of the population was between the ages of 66 and 70 years old (34%), it was found that patients were unaware of prescription drugs they should avoid nor did they know that the high amount of protein found in their urine could affect their kidneys. Conclusions: CKD patients have a low level of knowledge about their own disease, especially with regards to the effects, medications have on their own organism as well as the impact of the disease process on their own bodies acute accent . One of the principal limitations present in this study was that the population older than 80 years old could not be included in the study due to the level of cognitive and functional decline they presented.