Niveles de ansiedad y depresión en pacientes que se hemodializan en la clínica Reynadial de Guayaquil en el período 2020 - 2021

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease has increased dramatically in recent decades, and so have hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis treatments, in addition to kidney transplants. These treatments are usually invasive, generating emotions of frustration, anguish and sadness in patients, which strongly affects their mood, generating levels of anxiety and depression according to several studies. The general objective of this work is to determine the relationship between levels of anxiety and depression in patients undergoing hemodialysis at the Reynadial Clinic and, as specific objectives, to identify levels of anxiety and depression in patients undergoing hemodialysis and to describe the levels of anxiety and depression according to variables of age, sex and time of treatment. This research has a quantitative approach, the type of design is non-experimental, cross-sectional and a correlational scope. The participants will be patients from the Reynadial clinic of the Guayaquil canton, who are undergoing hemodialysis treatment. It will work with a population of 84 patients. As research instruments, the Anxiety Inventory and the Depression Inventory, both from Beck, were applied. The correlation between anxiety and depression was verified in patients with chronic kidney disease; higher prevalence of anxiety and depression in patients between 60 and 69 years old; the male population presented higher levels of anxiety while women had higher levels of depression, in addition, who had had more than a year of treatment, were those who presented higher levels of anxiety and depression