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- Title
Health-Related Quality of Life and Its Factors of Hemodialysis Patients in Suzhou, China.
- Authors
Pan, Chen-Wei; Wu, Yin; Zhou, Hui-Jun; Xu, Bin-Xian; Wang, Pei
- Abstract
<bold>Background:</bold> To identify factors of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of Chinese end-stage renal disease patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD). <bold>Methods:</bold> In all, 315 HD patients were recruited from a tertiary hospital in Suzhou, China. Each patient completed the Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form. It generated 4 types of HRQOL scores: PCS score, MCS score, kidney disease component summary (KDCS) score, and SF-6D index score. Multiple linear regressions were conducted to identify the factors associated with each of the scores. <bold>Results:</bold> Factors associated with poorer HRQOL were determined including: middle age and above (≥45 years), without partner, presence of complication, long dialysis vintage (≥4.5 years) with physical component summary; low education level, presence of comorbidity, long dialysis vintage, low hemoglobin level with mental component summary; without partner, presence of comorbidity, long dialysis vintage with KDCS; middle age and above, without partner, low education level; long dialysis vintage, more frequent dialysis (≥2 times/week) with SF-6D. <bold>Conclusion:</bold> The study evaluated the HRQOL of HD patients in mainland China.
- Subjects
KIDNEY disease treatments; HEMODIALYSIS; QUALITY of life; HEMODIALYSIS patients; KIDNEY diseases
- Publication
Blood Purification, 2018, Vol 45, Issue 4, p327
- ISSN
0253-5068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000485962