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Knowledge, Attitudes, Behaviors, And Beliefs About Chronic Kidney Disease In Indiana’S Minority Communities: A Community-Based Survey, Priscilla Ryder, Kelsey Coy, Anita Ohmit, Chandana Saha

Priscilla T. Ryder

The purpose of this report is to detail the findings of the study ‘Knowledge, Attitudes, Behaviors, And Beliefs about Chronic Kidney Disease in Indiana Minority Communities,’ undertaken as a collaboration between Indiana Minority Health Coalition, Inc. (IMHC) and the Butler University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (BUCOPHS). The purpose of the study was to understand knowledge of and beliefs about Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) among racial/ethnic minorities in Indiana, to learn how these populations would like to receive information about CKD, to understand the factors associated with higher levels of CKD awareness, to estimate the proportion of people with …