Longitudinal assessment of the health-related quality of life of children and adolescents with chronic kidney disease

Psychosocial Health Among Young Adults With Kidney Failure: A Longitudinal Follow-up of the SPEAK (Surveying Patients Experiencing Young Adult Kidney Failure) Study

“…This would support findings from a recent longitudinal cohort study among 377 children in New Zealand that reported improvement in the trajectory of health-related QoL among children receiving dialysis at baseline that was most likely driven by the transition from dialysis to transplantation. 21 Notably, SPEAK-2 respondents receiving dialysis were significantly less likely to be fully independent (OR, 0.06; P = 0.02), even after controlling for IADL in SPEAK-1. This finding is potentially explained by accruing and compounding comorbid conditions among those receiving dialysis.…”