Renal transplantation: awareness of patient as to the Perioperative period

Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to identify the knowledge of patients on waiting lists for kidney transplant surgery at an outpatient transplant clinic of a school hospital in Recife as to the information about the care required along the perioperative period. Method: a cross sectional study using a exploratory, descriptive and quantitative method. Population will be constituted of patients on waiting lists at the school hospital in Recife or from other services recorded as new cases of kidney transplantation surgery who agree to participate in the survey, ages above 18 years, excluding patients who did not come out during the data collection for the survey. Data collection was performed by the author in situ through semi-structured interviews, composed by objective issues investigating the patients’ knowledge about kidney transplantation. The project was approved by the ethics committee and research of Institute of Integrative Medicine Prof. Fernando Figuei- ra - IMIP, through the statement no.: 241/09. Results: From the information collected in the survey with pre-coded forms, it was mounted a database using the SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) software version 1.5, and it was found the frequency distribution of variables presented as tables. Conclusion: It was identified that the patients’ knowledge on the care required along the perioperative period of kidney transplantation is inapropriate.