Association Between Dialysis adequacy and Quality of Life among hemodialysis patients

Abstract

Introduction: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a leading cause of death and morbidity around the
world.
Objective: The Study amid to assess Quality of life (QoL) and dialysis adequacy in patient undergoing
hemodialysis and determine the association between Dialysis adequacy and Quality of Life
(QoL)among hemodialysis patients with end -stage disease .
Methodology: A descriptive A-non-probability (purposive sample) of (174) male and female
hemodialysis patients in al-Najaf al-Ashraf city of patients with end -stage kidney disease and
undergoing hemodialysis. Most patients were diagnosed with ESRD > one year ago from those who
have been on a maintenance hemodialysis program for more than a year.Data was analyzed by using
of descriptive data analysis (frequencies, percentages, mean, standard deviation, person correlation).
Results: The results of measurement of adequacy of 174 participant , about 35.1% achieved adequate
and 64.9% did not achieve adequacy. The results of the quality of life assessment showed that 10.9%
had a good quality of life and 89.1% had a poor quality of life.
Conclusions: The study concluded that Patients with chronic kidney disease on dialysis had overall
low QOL scores in all domine. Gender ,level of education that affected one or more domains of QOL.
End-stage kidney disease affect negatively on patients’ quality of life.