Liang Wang, He Cui
Identification and classification of urban employment centers based on big data: A case study of Beijing
PloS one
awareness kidney replacement therapies krt associated greater home dialysis use however validated instruments evaluating patient knowledge awareness various krts currently lacking critical informed decisionmaking developed 24item krt knowledge instrument knowkrt encompassing three domains general technical correlative information critical informed dialysis decisionmaking conducted crosssectional study among veterans advanced chronic kidney disease ckd determine reliability dimensionality validity knowkrt instrument dimensionality acceptable root mean squared error approximation 0095 conceptual threedomain model fit 28246 p 001 corrected itemtotal correlation indices excellent 04 individual items internal consistency excellent full instrument cronbachs alpha 095 086 091 079 general technical correlative domains respectively knowkrt score correlated strongly ckd knowledge score r068 p001 krt awareness low ease index 0181 full instrument general technical correlative domains scores demonstrated strong correlations knowkrt total score r068 061 048 respectively p001 ckd instrument score r095 093 077 respectively p 001 krt ckd awareness correlated negatively age positively health literacy employment status hypertension quality nephrology care report newly developed krt knowledge instrument three domains acceptable internal consistency reliability validity show patients advanced ckd low awareness krts even items related basic descriptions modalities highlighting need targeted patient education efforts