Assessment of Self-Management among Chronic Renal Failure Patients at Ismailia General Hospital

Background: Patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) face multifaceted problems arising from complications of the disease require effective self-management. So Self-Management among Chronic Renal Failure Patients is necessary for reducing financial burden, minimize negative disease effects, and delay disease progression. Aim: The study aimed to assess self-management among chronic renal failure patients at Ismailia General Hospital. Research design: A descriptive design was used. Subjects: purposivesample of 309 chronic renal failure patients recruited from General hospital in Ismailia governorate Tools: Three tools were used to collect data, Interviewing questionnaire, the Hemodialysis Self- Management scale and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Results: of this study indicate that most (92.6%) of the studied patients have low level of self-management, about less than three quarters (71.8%) of studied patients had unsatisfactory level of knowledge regarding to chronic renal failure patients. the highest mean of self-management was 2.63±.75 regarding to diet and hemodialysis while the lowest mean was 2.43±.8 regarding to fluid control Conclusion: This study shows that most  of the studied patients have low level of self-management and there was significant negative correlation between total studied patients' self-management score and total anxiety Also there was significant negative correlation between total studied patients' self-management score and total depression Recommendations: improve self-management is necessary in chronic renal failure patients by performing Self-management program, which is essential to move towards targeting and tailoring of self-management interventions.