Associations of Socio-demographic Characteristics, Clinical Factors, Anthropometry Parameters, Personal Factors, and Psychological Factors with Health-related Quality of Life of Hemodialysis Patients in Selangor during COVID-19 Pandemic

Chia, Jing Pei (2022) Associations of Socio-demographic Characteristics, Clinical Factors, Anthropometry Parameters, Personal Factors, and Psychological Factors with Health-related Quality of Life of Hemodialysis Patients in Selangor during COVID-19 Pandemic. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the associations of selected variables with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of hemodialysis patients in Selangor during COVID-19 pandemic. Petaling district was chosen from the total of nine districts of Selangor based on purposive sampling. A total of 81 participants were recruited from two dialysis centers in Petaling, Malaysia. Socio demographic characteristics, clinical factors, body mass index, interdialytic weight gain, sleep quality, nutritional status, anxiety and depression level were ascertained, with Kidney disease quality of life 36 items (KDQOL36) questionnaire was used to assess the HRQoL of subjects. Subjects in this study was predominantly male (60.5%), Chinese (55.6%), married (67.9%), retired with source of income were mainly pension/Employees’ Provident Fund /savings (50.6%). Hypertension was the most common comorbidy (76.5%). About 40% of subjects experiencing protein energy malnutrition. A majority of the subjects had good fluid adherent (67.9%), were poor sleepers (63%-65.6%) and well nourished (66.7%). Approximately15% of the subjects experienced abnormal anxiety and depressed, respectively. Amongst the five domains of quality of life, subjects scored lowest for burden of kidney disease, indicating that majority of the hemodialysis patient feel like a burden to their family and being defeated as they had to dependent on others. Age, change of employment status and dialysis vintage were correlated with domains of KDQOL36. This study depicted a comparable data on KDQoL before and during COVID-19 pandemic. This finding found that hemodialysis patients in Malaysia had a better score in symptoms and problems of kidney disease (SPKD) while burden of kidney disease subscale (BKD) ranked the lowest during COVID-19 pandemic. This study demonstrated that BMI, nutritional status, sleep quality, depression and anxiety was associated with domains of KDQOL-36. Considering the long-term impacts of HRQoL on hemodialysis patients, intervention focus on related variables is worthy.

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Science
Depositing User:	Mr Khoirul Asrimi Md Nor
Date Deposited:	07 Aug 2023 02:13
Last Modified:	07 Aug 2023 02:13
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/978

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