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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression and treatment conditions limit patient physically, and in the social, work, sexual and emotional areas, generating complications, and affecting the quality of life.
Analytical cross-selectional study; 101 patients with CKD were included, and underwent a complete clinical evaluation. Quality of life was evaluated with the instrument Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form (KDQoL-SFTM).
Twenty-six percent of patients were on predialysis, 40% on HD, 17% on PD and 17% on TR. The main results are shown in the table. Predicting variables for global quality of life in predialysis were: having a partner, higher education, presence of hypertension, and not having cardiovascular disease (CVD) (R2=0.59, p=0.003); in HD: being male, having a job and not having CVD (R2=0.45, p<0.0001); in PD: having diabetes mellitus (R2=0.77, p<0.0001); and in TR there were no significant predictors of global quality of life.
Patients with TR had the best quality of life compared with those on HD, which seems to be related to better physical and mental dimensions. Predicting variables for global quality were different for each of the patient groups.