Hemmelgarn, BrendaRonksley, PaulGalbraith, Lauren2015-09-302015-11-202015-09-302015Galbraith, L. (2015). Identifying Chronic Kidney Disease in the Community: The See Kidney Disease Targeted Screening Program (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26428http://hdl.handle.net/11023/2558Background: Guidelines recommend early identification of chronic kidney disease (CKD), with targeted screening as a potential method. Methods: The See Kidney Disease (SeeKD) targeted screening program screened 5,194 participants for CKD across Canada. Participant characteristics and clinical measures, including point-of-care creatinine testing for at-risk participants to determine unrecognized CKD (estimated glomerular filtration rate < 60 mL/min/1.73m2), were obtained. Individual counselling sessions were provided to participants as a behaviour change intervention. Results: The majority of participants (88.9%) had at least one risk factor for CKD, amongst whom the prevalence of unrecognized CKD was 18.8%. The majority of respondents to the post-screening survey (89.8%) self-reported a health behaviour change 2-4 weeks after their individual counselling session. Conclusion: The SeeKD program was able to identify a high prevalence of unrecognized CKD. Individual counselling may be an important component in facilitating health behaviour change among participants at risk of CKD.engUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.EpidemiologyMedicine and SurgeryPublic HealthChronic kidney diseaseMass screeningTargeted screeningBehaviour changemaster thesis10.11575/PRISM/26428