QUALIDADE DE VIDA DOS PORTADORES DE INSUFICIÊNCIA RENAL CRÔNICA EM TRATAMENTO DE HEMODIÁLISE

Abstract

This study aims to identify, to describe, to analyze and to understand the quality of life (QOL) of chronic renal insufficiency (CRI) carrieres. For that, it considered the impact of CRI and the treatment of hemodialysis on the QOL of its carriers from the qualitative and quantitative indicators of physical, psychological, social, environmental and general aspects and associated them to QOL with socialdemographic and clinic dimensions. In this study there were 86 CRI carrieres above the age of 18, in hemodialysis treatment at least for a month at Hospital das Clínicas (N=20) and at Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Goiânia (N=60). To measure the QOL some tools like personal clinic information form from the participant, a semi structural interview script and the forms World Health Organization Quality of life Assessment (WHOQOL) and Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short form (KDQOL- SF ) were used. The results show that the CRI carrierer has a QOL in the medium average presenting a large harm in relation to physical aspects, especially in relation to the working activities and a better QOL related to psychological and social aspects. It was concluded that to make better a QOL of a CRI carrier it is necessary to invest in the development of less invasive and less painful techniques to reduce the number and the intensity of the symptoms related to the illness and treatment besides the insertion and stimulation in the working activities along with CRI carrieres in hemodialysis treatment.