caa a22 4500 475847601 CHVBK 20180406123919.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008933621829 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008933621829 Assessment of quality of life in a single centre dialysis population using the KDQOL-SFTm questionnaire [Elektronische Daten] [P. Carmichael, J. Popoola, I. John, P.E. Stevens, A.R. Carmichael] Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is a valid marker of outcome for chronic dialysis therapy. A wide range of questionnaires are now available which assess different aspects of an individual's health. Appreciation of those factors that contribute to explaining HRQOL items remains poorly defined. The development of disease-specific questionnaires such as KDQOL-SFTm, should allow for such questions to be better answered. A cross-sectional analysis of our chronic dialysis population was made using the KDQOL-SFTm questionnaire. By multiple linear regression analysis demographic, clinical and dialysis-related factors were assessed for their contribution to the HRQOL in this population. The HRQOL of these patients was also compared against a general population sample. From a total of 190 chronic dialysis patients, 146 completed the KDQOL-SFTm questionnaire. The haemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients were similar with respect to most demographic, clinical and dialysis variables except for haemoglobin and albumin which were significantly (p < 0.05) greater in the peritoneal and haemodialysis populations respectively. Compared to the general population, the HRQOL of dialysis patients was impaired for all SF-36 subscales. Use of the disease-specific components of KDQOL-SFTm discriminated between dialysis modality for our dialysis population. Multiple linear regression analysis demonstrated that 27.5 to 42.7% of the variance in the SF-36 subscales could be explained. Satisfactory sleep, dialysis related symptoms, effect of kidney disease on lifestyle and burden of kidney disease were found to be the most important determinants of HRQOL for this population. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Chronic dialysis nationallicence KDQOL-SFTm nationallicence Regression analysis nationallicence Carmichael P. Department of Renal Medicine, Kent & Canterbury Hospital, Ethelbert Road, CT1 3NG, Canterbury, UK aut Popoola J. Department of Renal Medicine, Kent & Canterbury Hospital, Ethelbert Road, CT1 3NG, Canterbury, UK aut John I. Department of Renal Medicine, Kent & Canterbury Hospital, Ethelbert Road, CT1 3NG, Canterbury, UK aut Stevens P.E. Department of Renal Medicine, Kent & Canterbury Hospital, Ethelbert Road, CT1 3NG, Canterbury, UK aut Carmichael A.R. Department of Surgery, Medway Maritime Hospital, Windmill Road, Gillingham, Kent, UK aut Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/2(2000-03-01), 195-205 0962-9343 9:2<195 2000 9 11136 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008933621829 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008933621829 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Carmichael P. Department of Renal Medicine, Kent & Canterbury Hospital, Ethelbert Road, CT1 3NG, Canterbury, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Popoola J. Department of Renal Medicine, Kent & Canterbury Hospital, Ethelbert Road, CT1 3NG, Canterbury, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- John I. Department of Renal Medicine, Kent & Canterbury Hospital, Ethelbert Road, CT1 3NG, Canterbury, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stevens P.E. Department of Renal Medicine, Kent & Canterbury Hospital, Ethelbert Road, CT1 3NG, Canterbury, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Carmichael A.R. Department of Surgery, Medway Maritime Hospital, Windmill Road, Gillingham, Kent, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/2(2000-03-01), 195-205 0962-9343 9:2<195 2000 9 11136 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer