A study of quality of life among hemodialysis patients and its associated factors using kidney disease quality of life instrument-SF36 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
We aimed in this study to assess the quality of life for kidney-ill patients using Kidney Disease Quality of Life Instrument-SF36 (KDQOL-SF36) and the impact of other demographic, clinical, and social factors on patients’ QOL. The quality of life was assessed using an Arabic version of KDQOL-36. The...
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Published in | Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation Vol. 31; no. 6; pp. 1225 - 1233 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation
01.11.2020
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Summary: | We aimed in this study to assess the quality of life for kidney-ill patients using
Kidney Disease Quality of Life Instrument-SF36 (KDQOL-SF36) and the impact of other
demographic, clinical, and social factors on patients’ QOL. The quality of life was assessed using
an Arabic version of KDQOL-36. The KDQOL-36 subscales Physical Component Summary
(PCS), Mental Component Summary (MCS), Burden of Kidney Disease, and Effects of Kidney
Disease were calculated. The effect of sex, diabetic status, diabetes mellitus, marital and status
employment status, etc. on these subscales was evaluated. Reliability was determined by
calculating Cronbach’s alpha. A total of 254 patients were enrolled. The mean age was 58.2
(standard deviation 18.2) years; 61% were male, 56.7% diabetic and 20.1% were employed. The
mean domain scores on the PCS, MCS, burden of kidney disease, and effects of kidney disease
subscales were 49.4, 38.7, 52.6, and 37.2, respectively. Afternoon shift patients score highest
among all shifts in MCS and PCS (P = 0.0001). The MCS score (38.7 ± 28.7) was significantly
lower than PCS (49.4 ± 16.5) (P = 0.0001). The “effect of kidney disease” subscale was higher in
males (P = 0.02), employed patients (P = 0.02), in the afternoon dialysis shift (0.0001). For PCS
higher scores were seen in males (P = 0.0001), in non-diabetics (compared to diabetics) (P =
0,006), in the employed patients (P = 0.02). The highest score was seen in the “burden of kidney
disease” subscale and the lowest in the “effects of kidney disease” subscale. Higher scores were
seen in males, in nondiabetics, in the employed patients. |
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ISSN: | 1319-2442 2320-3838 |
DOI: | 10.4103/1319-2442.308331 |