The Effect of Nutrition Education Given to Haemodialysis Patients on Food Consumption and Diet Attitude: A Randomised Controlled Study

Patients who agree to participate in the study will be included in the experimental group and control group as a result of statistical analysis and the number of patients will be determined. Then, the patients will be assigned to the groups with the randomisation method of;simple and stratified sampling;. The experimental and control groups within the scope of the research will be determined by simple randomisation method (coin toss). In the first interview, the individuals in the training group will be administered the Individual Information Form; and the;Attitude Scale of Hemodialysis Patients towards Diet Therapy as a pre-test by the researcher using the face-to-face interview method. Then, 24-Hour Food Consumption Record will be given and all food/liquids eaten and drunk for 24 hours retrospectively will be asked to be written on this form. At this stage, the researchers will help the participants to fill in the food consumption record if needed. This process will take approximately 20 minutes and the food consumption record will be collected again. Then, the individuals in the training group will be informed about nutrition education and the first nutrition education will be started. The training will last for 4 weeks, twice a week, and the length of the training will be forty minutes. After the last of the trainings, which will last 8 times in total, the Attitude Scale of Hemodialysis Patients towards Diet Therapy will be applied as a post-test using the face-to-face interview method. In the same way, 24-Hour Food Consumption Record will be given and all food/liquids eaten and drunk for 24 hours retrospectively will be asked to be written on this form. In the control group, pretest data forms (Individual Information Form and Attitude Scale towards Diet Therapy of Haemodialysis Patients) and three-day 24-Hour Food Consumption Record will be filled out, and the Attitude Scale and three-day 24-Hour Food Consumption Record will be filled out one month later as the posttest.