Quality of Life and Related Factors in Hemodialysis Patients Referred to Teaching Hospitals in Zanjan

Abstract

Introduction and Aims The evaluation of the quality of life helps us to fundamentally focus on the patients’ problems and drastically causes the treatment methodologies to be reconsidered. The present research studies the quality of life and related factors in the Hemodialysis patients in the educational hospitals of Zanjan, Iran. Materials and Methods This descriptive cross-sectional study has been carried out on 74 patients in two Hemodialysis centers in Zanjan. Convenience sampling was done in 3 months. To assess the different parameters, standard of living questionnaire of kidney patients (KDQOL) was used. Results The findings showed that 8.1% of the patients had a good quality of life, 70.2% experienced medium quality of life and 21.7% had a poor quality of life. The mean and the standard deviation were 44.4 and 14.2. The highest average and standard deviation of the quality of life of samples in the 9 aspects were related to “pain” with the scores of 57.6 and 12. Also the lowest was related to “physical health problems” with the numbers of 18.5 and 11. Conclusion According to the results of this research, the poor quality of life is remarkable among the hemodialysis patients. Definitely accurate planning with a proper focus on the most important elements related to the quality of these patients’ lives can be helpful. * Corresponding Author: Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, Faculty of Nursing. Email: [email protected]

Keywords

• chronic renal failure
• hemodialysis
• the quality of life