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Published on: October 2, 2020
[Quality of life in patients with renal replacement therapy in hemodialysis]
Oscar Alfredo Luna-Ríos1, José Oscar Juárez-Sánchez1
1Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Centro Médico Nacional del Bajío, Hospital de Especialidades No. 1, Servicio de Nefrología. León, Guanajuato, México.
Background:
This study is carried out to establish the quality of life (QL) of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) on renal replacement therapy (RRT) on hemodialysis (HD), since it has been associated with decreased QL in these patients secondary to the medical-surgical interventions that are performed, in addition to the multiple comorbidities and complications that are associated with them.
Objective:
To establish the QL of patients with terminal CKD who are on RRT on HD.
Material And Methods:
Prospective, cross-sectional, observational and analytical study, with non-probabilistic convenience sampling. The total was of n = 87 patients, who were on RRT on intramural HD. It was carried out a survey to determine their QL. The Kidney Disease Quality of Life-36 (KDQOL-SF36) instrument was applied.
Results:
It was found that 51 patients (58%) were men, with a mean age of 45.037 (± 15.8663). Among QL results, the following variables were considered bad: assessing their kidney disease, sexual life, quality of sleep, relationship with family and friends, and work quality (p = 0.002, p = 0.001, p = 0.012, p = 0.005, and p = 0.001, respectively). In addition, it was shown that 46 patients (56%) considered that the quality of their health was bad (p = 0.024).
Conclusions:
In this study it was shown that suffering from CKD and being on RRT in HD produces a bad QL for these patients.
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