Background Patients who undertake endoscopic stone removal had a chance to have CBDS recurrence, which can lead to many severe complication. Many risk factors cause the recurrence of CBDS, but many factors cannot be controlled by clinical intervention. As for the patients in daily life, healthy lifestyle is important to prevent the recurrence of CBDS. The questionnaire of KAP can collect the real information about patients and guide the clinical work.

Methods 100 CBDS recurrence patients after surgery in our hospital were enrolled. A pair of self-designed questionnaires on KAP were used to collect data and assess the KAP towards CBDS recurrence.

Results The mean score for KAP of CBDS recurrence patients was 30.29±2.87, 26.42±±3.53 and 27.23±±3.48. Pearson correlation analysis showed that knowledge aspect score and attitude score were significantly positively correlated with practice score (r=0.384, 0.309; P<0.001, 0.002). Further Pearson regression analysis revealed that the knowledge and attitude, education, Type 2 diabetes, were significantly associated with the practice of patients.

Conclusion The CBDS recurrence patients had a good command of knowledge, but had negative attitude and poor performance in practice.

The authors have declared no competing interest.

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