Doctor-led intensive diet education on health-related quality of life in patients with chronic renal failure and hyperphosphatemia

Table 6 Comparison of disease-related knowledge and compliance scores between the two groups (mean ± SD, points)

Group	Number of examples	Time	Disease knowledge	Diet knowledge	Drug-taking knowledge	Compliance
Control group	60	Before the intervention	52.14 ± 6.14	61.14 ± 5.85	46.96 ± 5.25	58.23 ± 10.02
		Intervention for 3 mo	68.96 ± 5.44a	73.36 ± 6.02a	68.11 ± 6.36a	74.01 ± 6.59a
		Intervention for 6 mo	69.23 ± 6.01a	71.45 ± 5.22a	64.25 ± 5.23a	72.85 ± 6.98a
Observation group	60	Before the intervention	51.92 ± 8.98	60.88 ± 7.23	48.02 ± 6.32	57.96 ± 8.97
		Intervention for 3 mo	87.12 ± 6.55a,d	84.96 ± 8.02a,d	82.55 ± 7.65a,d	87.55 ± 7.14a,d
		Intervention for 6 mo	86.25 ± 7.12a,d	84.98 ± 7.96a,d	85.02 ± 6.44 a,d	86.96 ± 8.05a,d

^aP < 0.05 vs those before intervention in this group.

^dP < 0.05 vs the control group.