Calidad de vida en pacientes con enfermedad renal crónica sometidos a hemodiálisis y hemodiafiltración en las unidades de diálisis de la ciudad, Cuenca. 2016

Abstract

Background. - Hemodialysis (HD) and hemodiafiltration (HDF) represent an alternative therapy in patients with end stage chronic kidney disease. Those are becoming more common. Those as all medical treatments affect the quality of life of its patients. Objective. - Determine the quality of life in patients undergoing hemodialysis or hemodiafiltration at the dialysis units of the city Cuenca, 2016. Material and methods. - This is descriptive prospective research study. It evaluates patients undergoing HD or HDF. Non-probabilistic for convenience sample of patients who were older than 18 y/o and met the inclusion criteria. Quality Of Life Short Form 36 Form (QOL-SF36) and the Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS) collected the data using a validated form. SPSSv21.0 and Microsoft Excel analyzed the information was by using statistical as frequencies, percentages and averages. Results. – It studied 73 patients, 52% were male, 56% lived in urban area, 69% were married and 73% suffered arterial hypertension. Most had received renal replacement therapy for a period  3 years. 53.5% of patients had good quality of life. Most of them were male. The physical role was the most affected in both sexes. 54.2% of  65 y/o patients had bad quality of life. Good quality of life had a relationship with a greater KPS. Conclusions. - Most of the studied patients had good quality of life. A greater male population presented good quality of life than female population