Health-related quality of life among dialysis patients on three continents: The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study

Fukuhara, Shunichi; Lopes, Antônio Alberto; Bragg‐Gresham, Jennifer L.; Kurokawa, Kiyoshi; Mapes, Donna; Akizawa, Tadao; Bommer, Jürgen; Canaud, Bernard; Port, Friedrich K.; Held, Philip J.; Dopps, for the Worldwide

doi:10.1046/j.1523-1755.2003.00289.x

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“…Studies that have investigated both diabetic and non-diabetic patients found similar results for the 11 subscales and the KDCS scores, with a trend towards higher scores in our study [25][26][27][28]. A Spanish study [47] compared quality of life of diabetic dialysis patients and unmatched non-diabetic patients using the SF-36 questionnaire and found significantly lower scores in seven out of eight subscales, but did not correct for the fact that the Spanish diabetic patients were significantly older than the non-diabetic patients (61.9± 13.5 vs 56.6±17 years).…”

Section: Diabetic Complications and Cardiovascular Diseasessupporting

confidence: 85%

“…The mental health scores in this study are in contrast to the results reported in some studies [27,47], but in accordance with a study of quality of life in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients with different GFRs [26]. They found decreasing physical health with decreasing GFR, but a similar mental health score in the five CKD groups and the dialysis group in which the mental health score was 50.0±9.…”

Section: Diabetic Complications and Cardiovascular Diseasessupporting

confidence: 83%

“…The KDQOL-SF has been used in several studies of dialysis patients [26][27][28][29]. The English version has previously been translated into Danish and validated in Danish dialysis patients [30][31][32][33].…”

Section: Clinical Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Diabetic patients treated with dialysis: complications and quality of life

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Aims/hypothesis The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of complications, health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and the influence of beliefs about control over health in diabetic dialysis patients. Methods Of 53 eligible diabetic patients on chronic dialysis during January 2004 in our clinic, 38 (76%) completed a kidney-specific (Kidney Disease Quality of Life) and a generic (SF-36) questionnaire and were characterised in terms of cardiovascular diseases and diabetic complications. Matched groups of non-diabetic dialysis patients (n= 40) and diabetic patients with a long duration of diabetes and normal kidney function (n=38) served as controls. Generic HRQOL was compared with matched data from a survey on the Danish general population (n=2248).

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Section: Diabetic Complications and Cardiovascular Diseasessupporting

confidence: 85%

Section: Diabetic Complications and Cardiovascular Diseasessupporting

confidence: 83%

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Diabetic patients treated with dialysis: complications and quality of life

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“…The KDQOL-SF TM has been used extensively to assess and evaluate the health-related quality of life among patients with kidney disease and on dialysis in clinical trial studies, validation studies, evaluation studies and multinational studies (Green et al 2001;Korevaar et al 2002;Walters et al 2002;Fukuhara et al 2003;Mapeds et al 2003;Van Maden et al 2003;Aqarwal et al 2006 ) as a generic core to measure functioning and well-being of patients on dialysis. The SF-36 includes eight multi-item scales that summarize physical component scale (PCS) and mental component scale (MCS): physical functioning (10 items), role limitations caused by physical health problems (4 items), bodily pain (2 items), general health (5 items), vitality (energy/fatigue) (4 items), social functioning (2 items), role limitations due to emotional problems (3 items), and mental health (psychological distress and psychological well-being) (5 items) (Ware 2001).…”

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Reliability and Validity of the Korean Version of Kidney Disease Quality of Life Instrument (KDQOL-SFTM)

Park

Kim

Yong

et al. 2007

Tohoku J. Exp. Med.

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Although the Kidney Disease Quality of Life instrument (KDQOL-SF TM ), which was designed to measure the comprehensive quality of life in patients with end stage renal disease, has been tested and widely administered in many other counties, it has not yet been translated, validated and reported for Korea. The primary purpose of this study was to validate a Korean version of KDQOL-SF TM and to evaluate its psychometric properties. The study subjects were 164 patients with hemodialysis or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis in university dialysis centers in Korea. In order to investigate the reliability, testretest reliability and internal consistency reliability were assessed. Both test-retest reliability and internal consistency reliability were found to be high. In order to investigate the construct validation, all the items of the SF-36 scales, an established generic QOL measures, were compared with an overall health rating scale in kidney disease-targeted scale. They found to be highly correlated with each other. Moreover, overall health rating scale was significantly correlated with symptoms/problems, effects of kidney disease, burden of kidney disease, cognitive function ( p < 0.001), and quality of social interaction ( p < 0.05). These results suggest that the Korean version of KDQOL-SF TM satisfies its reliability and validity in Korean patients with hemodialysis or continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis. This questionnaire provides important and clinically valuable information for understanding the health related quality of life in the Korean patients with dialysis.

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“…Despite improvements in the medical treatment of ESRD, the level of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is still much lower for these patients than for the general population (1). Furthermore, there has been little progress in improving HRQOL of dialysis patients over the past decade (2), although routine follow-up of HRQOL is mandated by the US Centers for Medical Services.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Association of Mental Health over Time with Cardiac Outcomes in HEMO Study Patients

Kang

Pike

Ramer

et al. 2012

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

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Summary Background and objectives Poor mental health over time is significantly associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the general population, which is the leading cause of death in dialysis patients. Most studies of dialysis patients, however, have investigated the relationship between baseline mental health measurements and all-cause mortality and not mental health measured longitudinally throughout a study and cause-specific mortality. Design, setting, participants, & measurements This study examined the association of changes in mental health over time with all-cause and cause-specific deaths and cardiac hospitalizations in the Hemodialysis study patients. Mental health was assessed at baseline and annually during the study with short form 36 mental health index scores. Poorer mental health was defined by a mental health index score≤60. Results Patients with poorer mental health at baseline were more likely to have less than a high school education and be unmarried, have significantly higher index of coexistent disease scores, and report taking β-blockers and sleep medications. Low mental health scores over time were independently associated with a decrease in survival time from all-cause mortality by −0.06 (−0.10, −0.03; P<0.001), and they also significantly hastened time to first cardiac hospitalization by −0.08 (−0.13, −0.02; P=0.01) and composite of first cardiac hospitalization or cardiac death by −0.04 (−0.07, −0.02; P<0.001). Conclusions This study found an independent association between poor mental health over time and all-cause mortality, cardiac hospitalization, and the composite of cardiac death or cardiac hospitalization in hemodialysis patients. The results underscore the importance of attention to mental health related to cardiac complications and even death in dialysis patients.

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Health-related quality of life among dialysis patients on three continents: The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study

Cited by 285 publications

References 29 publications

Diabetic patients treated with dialysis: complications and quality of life

Diabetic patients treated with dialysis: complications and quality of life

Reliability and Validity of the Korean Version of Kidney Disease Quality of Life Instrument (KDQOL-SFTM)

The Association of Mental Health over Time with Cardiac Outcomes in HEMO Study Patients

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