Quality Of Life and Chronic Kidney Disease Patients

Chronic kidney disease is a global health problem with a high economic burden on the health care system. Quality of life and psychological state can be influenced by various individual and social factors, disease and clinical situations of the individuals. The objective of the study is to assess the quality of life of chronic kidney disease patients. For this study we took 30 chronic kidney disease patients from private nephrology department (dialysis unit) and 30 healthy people. This age ranged from 18 to 55 years. To measure quality of life world health organization quality of life - bref (WHOQOL-BREF) scale was used. This comprises four domains: physical health, psychological aspects, social relationships, and environment. Quality of life was administered on chronic kidney disease patients and healthy groups. After analyzing the data it was found that there was significant difference between the chronic kidney disease patients and healthy person group on WHOQOL-BREF. It is concluded that quality of life of chronic kidney disease patients are poor than healthy group.