To explore the effects of health management platform on self-management in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) .

Totally 72 CKD patients discharged from the First Hospital Affiliated to Army Medical University between January and March 2018 were selected using convenient sampling and divided into the observation group and the control group according to the random number table. Patients in the control group received conventional health management, while patients in the observation group received health management through the online health management platform for 6 months. The CKD Self-Management Scale was used to compare the difference in self-management ability between the two groups before and after the intervention. During the follow-up, 3 patients were excluded from the observation group and 6 from the control group. Totally 32 patients were included into the observation group and 31 into the control group.

The observation group's self-management ability totaled (96.22±7.39) , while that of the control group totaled (86.10±8.74) 3 months after the intervention; The observation group's self-management ability totaled (102.16±6.80) , while that of the control group totaled (92.03±6.45) 6 months after the intervention. Repeated measurement variance analysis showed that there was statistically significant difference in self-management ability between the two groups (F_Time=226.374; F_Groups=10.931; F_mutual=14.318; P<0.01) .

The health management platform can improve the self-management ability of CKD patients, which may be an effective pathway for CKD self-management.

Intervention study; Health management platform; Chronic kidney disease; Self-management