Awareness, self-management behaviors, health literacy and kidney function relationships in specialty practice

Table 3 Performance of chronic kidney disease self-management behaviors in previous three months compared with chronic kidney disease awareness (n = 150)

Items	Percent who performed the activity in the past 3 mo, % (n)	Total aware (n = 132)Percent aware that performed the activity in past 3 mo, % (n)	Total unaware (n = 18)Percent not aware that performed the activity in the past 3 mo, % (n)	Odds ratio (95%CI)b	P valuea
Control my blood pressure	93 (139)	95.4 (125)	77.8 (14)	5.9 (1.5-23.7)	0.02
Take my blood pressure medicine(s)	88 (130)	88.5 (115)	83% (15)	1.5 (0.4-5.9)	0.46
Have my urine (“pee”) tested	92 (138)	93.1 (122)	89 (16)	1.7 (0.3-8.5)	0.62
Eat more salt	9.4 (14)	9.2 (12)	11.1 (2)	0.8 (0.2-3.9)	0.67
Get my blood checked	98 (145)	98.5 (129)	94.1 (16)	4.0 (.3-47.0)	0.31
Keep a healthy body weight	68 (101)	72 (94)	39 (7)	4.0 (1.4-11.1)	0.013
Not take some types of over-the-counter medicines (motrin, Aleve, ibuprofen, naproxen)	89 (133)	90 (118)	83.3 (15)	1.8 (0.5-7.1)	0.41
Items included for those with diabetes	(n = 63)	(n = 58)	(n = 5)
Keep track of my blood sugar	90 (55)	89 (50)	100 (5)	---	1
Eat less sugar	93.5 (58)	93 (53)	100 (5)		1
Take my diabetes medicine(s)	95 (57)	94.5 (52)	100 (5)		1

^aP < 0.05;

^bReference category: “Not performed activity” for odds ratio.