Effect of educational intervention based on self-efficacy theory on adherence to dietary and fluids-intake restriction in hemodialysis patients

Hemodialysis patients experiences numerous problems in the fields of the self-care in adherence to dietary and fluids-intake restriction. Increasing their self-care, required to control of these problems. Since this is can be with education based on a behavior change theory, this study aims at determining the effect of educational intervention based on self-efficacy theory on adherence to dietary and fluids-intake restriction in hemodialysis patients.
This is a Randomized Clinical Trial study that conducted in 2016. The research population consists of 70 hemodialysis patients (35 in experimental group, 35 in control group). The data were collected by demographic questionnaire, self-efficacy (SUPPH) and researcher-made validated and relied questionnaire of adherence to dietary and fluids-intake restriction (8 , 6 questions, respectively) in two steps, before and three months after education. The educational program was performed for the experience group in 2 half-hour session. Also the data were analyzed by SPSS 16,Paired t and Independent t test, Chi-square and Mann-Whitney at the significant level of α=0.05.
Before the test, there was no significant difference in adherence to dietary (p=0.49) and fluids-intake restriction (p=1.00). At post-test, significant differences were observed between the two groups in adherence to dietary (p The results of this research showed that employing educational program based on the self-efficacy theory can lead to the promotion of the adherence to dietary and fluids-intake restriction in hemodialysis patients.