Identifying Chronic Kidney Disease in the Community: The See Kidney Disease Targeted Screening Program
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2015-09-30
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Background: Guidelines recommend early identification of chronic kidney disease (CKD), with targeted screening as a potential method.
Methods: The See Kidney Disease (SeeKD) targeted screening program screened 5,194 participants for CKD across Canada. Participant characteristics and clinical measures, including point-of-care creatinine testing for at-risk participants to determine unrecognized CKD
(estimated glomerular filtration rate < 60 mL/min/1.73m2), were obtained. Individual counselling sessions were provided to participants as a behaviour change intervention. Results: The majority of participants (88.9%) had at least one risk factor for CKD, amongst whom the prevalence of unrecognized CKD was 18.8%. The majority of respondents to the post-screening survey (89.8%) self-reported a health behaviour change 2-4 weeks after their individual counselling session.
Conclusion: The SeeKD program was able to identify a high prevalence of unrecognized CKD. Individual counselling may be an important component in facilitating health behaviour change among participants at risk of CKD.
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Epidemiology, Medicine and Surgery, Public Health
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Galbraith, L. (2015). Identifying Chronic Kidney Disease in the Community: The See Kidney Disease Targeted Screening Program (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26428