Aim
Today health services aim to provide a higher level of life quality to individuals as much as possible and not being limited only to providing a good treatment. In this context it was aimed to evaluate the life quality and the factors affecting this in chronic renal failure (CRF) patients undergoing hemodialysis.
Materials and method
A total of 144 adult patients with CRF from two dialysis centers in Adana, one private and one in a University, were included in the study. A questionnaire investigating demographic characteristics and short form health survey “SF-36” were filled by face-to-face interview technique.
Findings
Male to female ratio of the participants was 91(63.2%) to 53(36.8%). The mean dialysis history was calculated as 44.4±34.3 months. One to six other diseases were recorded with a mean number of 2.9±1.1 to be concurrent to CRF. SF-36 revealed a health status score mean (TS=total score) of 48.1±21.8, with physical status scale (PSS) score mean of 46.0±21.1 and mental status scale (MSS) score mean of 50.3±22.0. The same scores were calculated to be significantly lower in females (with 40.4, 39.8 and 38.0, respectively) in comparison to males (with 52.5, 50.3 and 50.6, respectively) (p
Key words: Key words: Hemodialysis, Chronic renal failure, Life quality Article Language: Turkish English
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