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Introduction: As experienced with the assistance evaluation of children/adolescents with chronic kidney disease in dialysis treatment on hospital we thought about which aspects could be relevant to the peritoneal dialysis (PD) application at home. The objective was to describe the level of schooling and information of the parents about the PD technique, general conditions of the place used to do PD at home and search association with inadequate technique.
Method: From March 2004 to May 2006 a descriptive study of an universe of 30 children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease treated in the HC/UFMG. To obtain the results was undertaken the software SPSS version 13.0. The parameters: low educational level, low family income, inadequate level of information, inadequate hygiene of hands during peritoneal dialysis (PD) procedure, were associated with worse quality of PD technique.
Results: The technique application of PD quality was considered inadequate in 18 (60%) patients. All the Odds Ratio values were into the confidence interval (95%) limits and were higher than 1 showing a possibility of a positive association between some independent variables and variable researched although without statistic significance.
Conclusion: The statistical analysis did not show association between the parameters tested although they may have a positive role in the success of the dialysis technique.
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