Evaluación de la calidad de vida de los pacientes con insuficiencia renal crónica sometidos a hemodiálisis en el Centro Hemodial-Azogues, Azoguez 2014

Abstract

Background. The care that a patient with kidney disease can receive are of vital importance in the development of their disease; there are many factors that influence in the quality of life. The nursing staff provides a careful scientific, technical, ethical and human care in his illness.

Objective. The purpose of this research is to assess the quality of life of patients with chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis in the center Hemodial-Azogues, Azogues 2014.

Methodology: conducted an observational study, descriptive cross-sectional. We studied 87 patients who come to the center of hemodialysis in the city of Azogues. For the assessment of the quality of life questionnaire was used the Kidney Disease Quality of Life (KDQOL-36). The information was transcribed to a digital database and analyzed with the statistical package SPSS v.15.0. Descriptive analysis was conducted using tables and graphs, to present the frequencies and percentages observed.

Results: The average age is 56.4 years. The 61.9% have between 1 to 5 years of disease, vascular access more frequent is the fistula, a 38.1% are overweight and the most frequent comorbidity is high blood pressure. 4.8% have been carried out a kidney transplant, the 69.8% take between 1 to 5 years on dialysis, a 33.3% have hypertension, a 93.7% anemia and a 46.0% hypocalcemia. The 3.2% have a level of dependency. The quality of life of patients is poor, average for sub scale symptoms /list of problems 75.26, effects of kidney disease 50.79, burden of kidney disease 38,19, SF-12 combination of physical health 38.43 and SF-12 combination of mental health 41.73 .

Conclusions: The quality of life of patients is poor. There is a high percentage of anemia, high blood pressure and overweight.