A Comparative Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Renal Calculi among Rural and Urban Clients with Renal Calculi in Selected Hospitals at Amritsar, in a View to Develop an Information Booklet

One of the most painful urologic disorders are the renal stones and they are not a product of prevailing modern-day life as scientists have found evidence of kidney stones in a 7,000 year old Egyptian mummy. The existence of kidney stones has been recorded since the beginning of civilization. Renal calculi occur in more than 10% of the Indian population and accounts for at least 7–10 per 1000 population needs hospitalization due to the kidney stone disease. A comparative study to assess the knowledge regarding renal calculi among rural and urban clients with renal calculi in selected hospitals at Amritsar, in a view to develop an information booklet was conducted by using a non-experimental comparative research design was used. Sample was selected by non probability purposive sampling technique. The sample size was 100 which comprised of 50 rural and 50 urban clients with renal calculi. The data collection was done by using self structured knowledge questionnaire. The results showed that for rural clients with renal calculi that the range (11–20), maximum score (30), mean (14.82), standard deviation (3.8), and mean percentage (49.4) of knowledge questionnaire; and for urban clients with renal calculi the range (11–20), maximum score (30), mean (18), standard deviation (3.9), and mean percentage (60) of knowledge questionnaire. The unpaired ‘t-test’ value of rural and urban clients with renal calculi was 4.12 which was significant at p<0.05 level. Hence the study results suggested that there was significant difference in the knowledge regarding renal calculi among rural and urban clients with renal calculi and urban clients have more knowledge as compared to rural clients. Keywords: Comparative, knowledge, renal calculi, urban and rural clients