1Ph. D. Candidate of Health Education & Promotion, Department of Health Education & Promotion, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2Professor, Department of Health Education & Promotion, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3Professor, Health Metric Research Center, Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research, ACECR, Tehran, Iran
4Associated Professor, Department of Health Education & Promotion, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
5Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
6Associated Professor, Nephrology and Renal Transplant Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences Urmia, Iran
Online published on 3 October, 2018.
The prevalence and incidence of Chronic Renal Failure [CRF] is increasing in the world. The main way for treatment of End-Stage Kidney Disease [ESKD]-that leads from CRF-is hemodialysis. One of the most important criteria for the evaluation of hemodialysis treatment process is the measure of dialysis adequacy. Dialysis adequacy is considered to the best therapeutic indicator for patient's clinical results and the best index for the assessment of the dialysis adequacy is the urea clearance. Although adherence accurate diet by patients is complement for hemodialysis and it is recommended for effectively control of symptoms of uremic syndrome and preventing longterm complications, many of these patients do not keep diet and fluid restriction and result in non-adequate dialysis, therefore, in order to improve dialysis adequacy, education, justify and emend patient's attitude about diet necessity of following dialysis period times precisely and on time refers are very important. Due to the complexity of the treatment and care of hemodialysis patients, as well as the needs for adequate dialysis implement for to achieve effective treatment for these patients, by designing and run an educational program based on Health Education Models, dialysis adequacy can be improved.
Hemodialysis, dialysis adequacy, adherence, Health Education Models