The effect of nutrition counseling on intake of energy, protein, and nutritional status of chronic kidney disease with haemodialysis Muliani Usdeka1,*, Mulyani Roza1, Hasan Amrul1, Rajiani Ismi2 1Minister of Health Polytechnic, Tanjungkarang, Indonesia 2Department of Business Administration, STIAMAK, Barunawati, Surabaya, Indonesia *Corresponding Author: Usdeka Muliani Department of Nutrition, Minister of Health Polytechnic, Tanjungkarang, Indonesia email: inideka@yahoo.co.id
Online published on 9 January, 2019. Abstract Background Haemodialysis patients must get sufficient food intake to remain in good nutritional status, nutrition. Nutrition Counselling is an effort to accelerate the healing process and achieve optimal nutritional status. This study aims to determine the effect of dietary counseling on energy, protein, and nutritional status of Cronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients with hemodialysis. Method This study included analytical research with quasi-experimental research design, which was carried out at general hospital Dr. H Abdul Moeloek Lampung Province. The number of samples was 61 people, consisting of 33 treatment groups and 28 controls. The variables examined were nutritional counseling, energy intake, protein intake, and nutritional status Independent t-test and Mann-Whitney test was employed to investigate the relationship. Results In the group that received the nutritional counseling intervention (treatment), poor energy intake decreased by 21.2% compared to the control of only 7.2%. For protein intake, the treatment group of unfavorable protein intake decreased by 6.1%, while the control group did not reduce. Nutritional status is not right in the treatment group while in control it increases by 7.1%. Bivariate analysis showed no significant difference between nutritional counseling with calorie intake, protein intake and nutritional status in both the treatment and control groups. Conclusion It is recommended that nutritional counseling is carried out more often by nutritionists to increase the respondent's knowledge and need further research operating variables such as appetite, and the duration of hemodialysis. Top Keywords Energy Intake, Protein Intake, Nutritional Status, Haemodialysis. Top |