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Relationship between quality of life, self-esteem and depression in people after kidney transplantation
Francieli Lohn da Rocha1, Maria Elena Echevarría-Guanilo1, Denise Maria Guerreiro Vieira da Silva1
1Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Objective:
to assess the relationship between health-related quality of life with depression and self-esteem of people after kidney transplantation.
Method:
a cross-sectional study of 47 outpatients from October 2016 to February 2017. The following tools were applied: The Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey, Beck Depression Inventory and Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. Descriptive statistics and Spearman correlation were used.
Results:
women had lower scores for health-related quality of life. Young adults, people with up to one and a half years of transplantation and those who had dialysis for more than one year had higher scores.
Conclusion:
the health-related quality of life of people with chronic kidney disease after transplantation ranged from good to excellent. The presence of depression was not identified. The relationship of data indicates that the higher the quality of life, the better the self-esteem assessment.
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