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INTRODUCTION: is an important role of nephrologists. In our practice there has been a thought about parental dissatisfaction from breaking bad news to CKD patients. Caregiver's preferences on how to be told the bad news in CKD children has not been studied adequately. Our objective was to identify how much is the emotional and knowledge satisfaction of CKD caregivers and the relation of their socioeconomic and educational levels with their preferences in breaking bad news. METHODS: A questionnaire based study was conducted for caregivers of CKD children, in the outpatient clinics, and peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis units at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre for three months. RESULTS: 83 questionnaires from caregivers of CKD patients age (1-14) years, mean age of 8.5 ± 3.9 years. (47.6%) were emotionally very satisfied, 29.5% were very satisfied about the knowledge they had. CONCLUSION: Caregivers of CKD patients are satisfied emotionally more than the satisfaction about the amount of information they got. Different demographic data might affect their preferences in the way of receiving the bad news. The dissatisfaction suggesting that physicians' communication skills needs improvement.
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