Life quality of dialytic patients in a reference center in the amazon region
International Journal of Development Research
Life quality of dialytic patients in a reference center in the amazon region
Received 10th December, 2019; Received in revised form 19th January, 2020; Accepted 11th February, 2020; Published online 30th March, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Cilene Aparecida de Souza Melo et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Chronic Kidney Disease is a public health problem, whose dialysis greatly alters the patient's quality of life in the face of the changes the disease develops. The aim of this study is to assess the quality of life and the epidemiological profile of chronic kidney patients in a reference center in the Amazon Region. 103 individuals participated, of both genders, aged between 19 and 80 years in dialysis treatment. Two questionnaires were used, one referring to the epidemiological profile of the respondents and the KDQOL-SF ™ 1.3, referring to kidney disease and quality of life. It was observed that the prevalent sex was male (56.3%), aged between 50-69 years (49.6%), low education (66.1%), married (44.7%) and length of treatment from 1 to 3 years (54.4%). In the questionnaire, the domains that had the worst scores were: Stimulation of the Dialysis Team, Cognitive Function and Sexual Function. However, the best results were: Social Support, Work Situation and Patient Satisfaction. It was found that the quality of life of the patients studied is impaired in several aspects assessed by KDQOL-SF ™ 1.3.
