Background: Dialysis patients experience intense psychological and emotional changes symptoms that affect their daily quality of life. Aim: The aim this study is to investigate the factors affecting overall health life undergoing dialysis. Methods Material: This cross-sectional involves 49 dialysis, during June August 2019 in hemodialysis units Athens. Intentional sampling was used as method re...

BACKGROUND Assessment of quality of life (QOL) of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients (physical, mental, and social well-being) has become an essential tool to develop better plans of care. Objective of this study is to determine which demographic and biochemical parameters correlate with the QOL scores in patients with ESRD on hemodialysis (HD) using Kidney Disease QOL-36 surveys (KDQOL). ...

Background: Chronic kidney disease has an overall prevalence of 10?%. It can progress to a condition called end-stage renal disease. Therapies such as hemodialysis are necessary at this stage. Our study aims measure the quality life patients on hemodialysis. Methods: We conducted observational, cross-sectional with 81 patients. Data was collected using survey that included sociodemographic vari...

Objective: We evaluated the prevalence of fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) in hemodialysis patients and whether this was associated with gender, age, duration hemodialysis, or other laboratory parameters. Methods: The study included 248 chronic kidney disease (CKD) undergoing hemodialysis. were stratified into two groups: FM based on 2010 American College Rheumatology diagnostic criteria not meeting ...

BACKGROUND There are surprisingly a few studies that evaluate the impact of chronic viral hepatitis, which is common in HD (hemodialysis) patients, on HRQOL (health related quality of life). OBJECTIVES We conducted a study to evaluate the impact of chronic viral hepatitis on HRQOL and to compare their HRQOL with non-infected HD patients via a HRQOL questionnaire. PATIENTS AND METHODS The Ir...

BACKGROUND The evaluation of health-related quality of life (QOL) in chronic kidney disease intends to quantify its consequences, according to the patient’s subjective perception. AIM To evaluate the health-related QOL in four groups of patients followed at our Nephrology Department: chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 1-4, kidney transplant (KT), haemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (P...