Quality of Life of Chronic Kidney Disease Patients on haemodialysis in a tertiary care centre

ABSTRACT

Background: End-stage renal failure is a chronic disease that greatly impacts a pa?ent’s health-related quality of life mainly due to the imposed limita?ons in almost all domains of their daily lives affec?ng >10% of the general popula?on worldwide, amoun?ng to >800 million individuals. Haemodialysis consists of a complex procedure for pa?ents that requires frequent hospital or dialysis centre visits, three ?mes a week, Objec?ves To assess Quality of life and to find an associa?on between QOL, socio-demographic factors, and clinical variables among chronic kidney disease pa?ents on haemodialysis Material and methods: The sample consisted of 89 pa?ents undergoing haemodialysis. Data was collected by a specially designed ques?onnaire (KDQOL-36) which apart from the socio-demographic and clinical variables, also included the kidney disease variables for assessing the quality of life. Results: The results indicated that haemodialysis pa?ents’ QOL was impacted by socio-demographic and clinical factors related to dialysis. The study majorly reported that these factors played a major role directly and indirectly, with social ac?vi?es affec?ng more followed by emo?onal disturbances and physical ac?vi?es. Conclusion: QOL of haemodialysis pa?ents can be improved by correctable factors like anemia, diabetes, and hypertension. Healthcare prac??oners can create personalised interven?ons that are tailored to the needs of haemodialysis pa?ents by having a deeper grasp of the variables like treatment of co-morbidi?es decrease in the number of hospitaliza?ons, be?er management of anemia and decreasing the distance between home & dialysis center.