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End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is the final stage of chronic kidney disease which requires dialysis and markedly reduce quality of life of patients. ESRD patients in Vietnam’s Central Highlands have limited access to dialysis service and have to travel long distances for treatment. Thien Hanh General Hospital initiated hemodialysis (HD) in late 2023 and is implementing peritoneal dialysis (PD) in 2025 in Central Highlands. This study aims to measure the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of dialysis patients in this hospital, comparing their results to those of the general Vietnamese population, in order to provide evidence on supporting the expansion of local dialysis services for ESRD patients in the region.
A cross-sectional descriptive study on the HRQoL data of ESRD patients undergoing dialysis at Thien Hanh General Hospital. All of dialysis patients who met the inclusion criteria were included in a hospital-based face-to-face survey between June and July 2025. The standardized EQ-5D-5L instrument was used to measure HRQoL, together with data from the Vietnam EQ-5D-5L norms study. A Tobit regression model was employed to estimate the effect of dialysis modalities (PD vs. HD) on utility scores. Propensity score matching with 1:1 nearest-neighbour matching without replacement and a caliper width of 0.2 standard deviations of the logit of the propensity score was employed to match based on age, sex, and marital status with the Vietnamese population HRQoL dataset.
A total of 138 dialysis patients’s EQ-5D-5L responses (131 HD, 7 PD) showed that the mean health utility was 0.71 (Min-Max: -0.44 to 1) for HD patients and 0.50 (-0.41 to 0.92) for PD patients. PD patients reported higher problem levels in all dimensions: mobility (57.1%), self-care (42.9%), usual activities (71.4%), pain/discomfort (85.7%), and anxiety/depression (71.4%), compared with 38.9%, 23.7%, 47.3%, 70.2%, and 53.4% among HD patients, respectively. In the Tobit regression model, PD patients had 0.25 lower utility scores than HD patients. HRQoL among dialysis patients was associated with age, dialysis modalities, occupation, and functional dependence. Compared to the matched individuals from general Vietnamese population, dialysis patients demonstrated significantly lower HRQoL, particularly in usual activities domains (48.2% vs. 6.6%). The mean utility score of dialysis patients was significantly lower, by 0.23 (p < 0.001) compared with matched individuals.
Dialysis patients in the Central Highlands, Vietnam exhibited markedly reduced HRQoL compared with the general Vietnamese population. Among dialysis modalities, PD patients reported lower utility scores and more problems across all EQ-5D-5L dimensions than those receiving HD. These findings provide initial local evidence on HRQoL in ESRD, underscoring the need to strengthen psychosocial and supportive care and to optimize dialysis service delivery in newly developed kidney replacement programs in Vietnam.
