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Abstract
Background: chronic kidney disease has become a global public health problem
wherever assessment of nutritional needs for patients undergoing dialysis is a key factor in
prevention from malnutrition. This study aimed to assess nutritional needs for patients
undergoing hemodialysis. A descriptive design was applied in the current study. The
study was conducted at EI-Hussein university hospital in Cairo and at Port Said city
governmental hospitals disturbed as following, Port Said general hospital and Port-Fouad
general hospital. A convenience samplelOO patients undergoing hemodialysis was
included. Three tools were used for data collection; Structured interview questionnaire,
Dietary assessment which include Food frequency questionnaire and 24 recall assessment
questionnaire, and Nutritional needs assessment questionnaire. Results of the study
revealed that, more than three-quarters of them have abnormalities of nutritional parameters
and showed that there are significances between socio-demographic variables, dietary
habits, and some of the nutritional needs among studied hemodialysis patients and must be
taken into consideration in the nutritional assessment. Conclusion: abnormalities of
nutritional parameters are over prevalent than expected by analysis of dietary food intake.
The current study recommended that, dietetic counseling is very important in HD
patients, as well as a reevaluation of the type of dietary protein and energy requirements.