A Study to Assess the Psychosocial Problems and Quality of Life Among Chronic Renal Failure Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis in Selected Hospital at Cuttack With a View to Develop an Information Booklet

A study to assess the psychosocial problems and quality of life among chronic renal failure patients undergoing hemodialysis in selected hospital at Cuttack with a view to develop an information booklet. A descriptive survey approach was chosen for the study. Design selected for the present study is a Descriptive design. The study was conducted in dialysis unit of selected hospitals at Cuttack, Odisha, India. By using Purposive sampling technique 60 Dialysis patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were selected as samples. Demographic variable consisted of age, sex, area of living, occurrence of disease, comorbid illness and number of dialysis. Data was collected among the dialysis patients based on WHOQOL tool. Majority of samples in the demographic profile of 28(46.67%) of them were belong to the age group between 40 and 45, 33(55%) of them were male, 30 (50%) of them were urban population, 26(43.3%) of them were taken 1120 number of cycle of dialysis, 20 (33.34%) of them were had illness since 48 years, 30(50%) of them were having hypertension and renal diseases as co-morbid illness. The results of the study showed that most of the samples 27 (46.67%), Moderate QOL, 20(33.3%) Had poor QOL and remaining 12(20%) good QOL among the 60 patients underwent hemodialysis. The findings regarding the domain of WHOQOL tool are assessed and findings revealed that hemodialysis patients had effects on their social relationship and environment significantly. The values of the table were found to pass the normality distribution test. HD patients indicated lower QOL scores in the domains of environment, social relationships and over all domain which respectively 0.02, 0.00 and 0.03(P < 0.05), this indicated that patients with ESRD with Hemodialysis had their unpleasant quality of life based on social relationship and environment which affects their overall Quality of life.