This document discusses assessing the knowledge and perceived barriers of patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) regarding kidney transplantation. ESRD is the final stage of chronic kidney disease and approximately 10% of ESRD patients in India receive renal replacement therapy like dialysis. The study aims to assess knowledge of kidney transplantation, identify perceived barriers, and examine associations between knowledge and demographic factors in ESRD patients in selected hospitals in Kannur District, India. A descriptive survey research design using interviews will be used to collect data which will then be analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

1. KNOWLEDGE & PERCEIVED
BARRIERS OF PATIENTS
WITH ESRD REGARDING
KIDNEY
TRANSPLANTATION.

2.  END STAGE RENAL DISEASE IS A PROGRESSIVE,
IRRESISTIBLE DETERIORATION IN RENAL
FUNCTION.
 IN INDIA, AN ESTIMATED 100-220 PER
MILLION POPULATION REACHED ESRD STAGE
AND APPROXIMATELY 10% OF THE PATIENTS
RECEIVE RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY.
 AN ESTIMATED 11.5% OF ADULT HAVE CRF IN
INDIA, NEARLY 40000 DEATHS REPORTED
ANNUALLY.

3.  THE INCIDENCE OF CRF HAS DOUBLED IN
LAST 15 YEARS AND OVER 1 MILLION PEOPLE
WORLDWIDE ARE ALIVE ON DIALYSIS.
 DURING PAST 40 YEARS MORE THAN 380000
KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATIONS HAVE BEEN
PERFORMED WORLD WIDE AND MORE THAN
174000 HAVE BEEN PERFORMED IN UNITED
STATES.

6.  ASSES THE KNOWLEDGE AND
PERCEIVED BARRIERS
REGARDING KIDNEY
TRANSPLANTATION AMONG
PATIENTS WITH END STAGE
RENAL DISEASE, IN SELECTED
HOSPITALS AT KANNUR
DISTRICT.

7.  Assess the knowledge of patients with ESRD
regarding kidney transplantation
 Identify perceived barriers of kidney
transplantation in patients with ESRD.
 Find the association between knowledge and
selected demographic variables.
 Prepare an exhibit on kidney transplantation.

8.  KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION -
Kidney transplantation is a
surgical procedure to remove
a healthy, functioning kidney
from a living or brain dead
donor and implant it into a
patient with non functioning
kidneys.

9.  KNOWLEDGE -Understanding
of patient with esrd regarding
kidney transplantation , which
includes indications, general
procedure , benefits ,
contraindications , & facilities
available.

10.  PERCEIVED Barriers-a person’s
estimation of the level of
challenge of social, personal,
environmental, and economic
obstacles to undergo kidney
transplantation .

11.  PATIENTS WITH Esrd- patients
diagnosed with chronic renal
failure, stage 5 undergoing
haemodialysis .

12.  EXHIBIT –Public display and
presentation of an information
regarding kidney transplantation
including meaning, indications
,general procedures,
contraindications ,facilities
available , and benefits of kidney
transplantation.

13.  GENERAL SYSTEM MODEL BY
VON BERTALANFFY IS USED.

14.  Patients with esrd will have
some knowledge regarding
kidney transplantation.
 There are various barriers that
refrain patients from kidney
transplantation.

15.  There will be a significant
association between
knowledge and selected
demographic variables.

16.  RESEARCH APPROACH:
DESCRIPTIVE SURVEY APPROACH
 RESEARCH DESIGN: NON
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
 SETTING: DIALYSIS UNITS OF
SELECTED HOSPITALS.

17.  POPULATION: PATIENTS WITH ESRD
 SAMPLE: PATIENTS WITH ESRD
UNDERGOING DIALYSIS AT SELECTED
HOSPITALS WHO ARE MEETING
INCLUSION CRITERIA. SAMPLE SIZE IS
100 .
 SAMPLING TECHNIQUE – PURPOSIVE
SAMPLING

18.  TOOL – SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW
SCHEDULE
 DATA COLLECTION TECHNIQUE: SELF
REPORTING
 PILOT STUDY : PILOT STUDY WILL BE
CONDUCTED AT DHANALAKSHMI HOSPITAL
WITH 10 SAMPLES AFTER OBTAINING
PERMISSIONS FROM THE ADMINISTRATOR.

19.  TOOL USED IS INTERVIEW SCHEDULE, WHICH
HAS 3 PARTS
 PART 1 – INTERVIEW SCHEDULE TO COLLECT
INFORMATION REGARDING SOCIO-
DEMOGRAPHIC DATA
 PART 2 – INTERVIEW SCHEDULE TO ASSESS
THE KNOWLEDGE LEVEL REGARDING KIDNEY
TRANSPLANTATION
 PART 3 – CHECK LIST FOR ASSESSING
PERCEIVED BARRIERS.

20.  PLAN FOR DATA ANALYSIS:
Data will be analyzed by
inferential and descriptive
statistics.

21.  Patients who can understand
Malayalam.
 Subjects who are willing to
participate.
 Patients above 18 years of
age.

22.  EXCLUSION CRITERIA.
 MENTALLY INCOMPETENT AND SERIOUSLY ILL
PATIENTS.
 PATIENTS WHO ARE POSTED FOR KIDNEY
TRANSPLANTATION.

23.  BUDGET OF THE STUDY WILL BE AROUND
25,000 RS.