Effectiveness of an Instructional Program on Knowledge of Patients with Renal Failure Undergoing Hemodialysis Concerning Self-Care in Baghdad Teaching Hospital

To evaluate the effect of the instructional program on self-care at Baghdad Teaching Hospital, and to identify the relationship between patient's knowledge and their demographic characteristic (age, gender, level of education). A quasi-experimental study design was carried out in Iraqi center for dialysis at Baghdad teaching hospital form 4th December, 2018 to 6th June, 2019. A non-probability (purposive) sample comprised of (60) patients, were divided into two groups, study group consisted of (30) patients were exposed to an instructional program while (30) patients selected as control group, they didn't exposed to any intervention. The results of the study revealed that the knowledge, pretest score were not significant for study group than the control group, the mean of study group was (M = 1.57) and the mean for control group (M=1.40) while the mean in posttest knowledge for study group were higher (M = 2.00) than the control group (M=1.63).also the results shows there is significant relationship between age and patients knowledge concerning self-care in posttest (P.value=.016), and also there is no significant relationship between patients knowledge concerning self-care and other socio-demographic variables including (gender, and level of education) for study group