Quality of life among patients with predialysis chronic kidney disease in RSUP Dr. Sardjito Yogyakarta

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of world priority due to the increasing prevalence and poor outcome. Most of the patients experiencing problem and symptom since the early stage, however most of the previous study focusing on the patients that has undergoing renal replacement therapy (RRT). Thus, this study aimed to explore the quality of life among patients with CKD that has not undergoing routine RRT. A cross sectional study was conducted among 91 patients in chronic kidney disease who had not undergone dialysis. Quality of life was measure using KDQOL (Kidney Disease Quality of Life) 36 questionnaire. Clinical and laboratory were also recorded. It was revealed that most of the patients were on CKD stage 3 with diabetes as the comorbid. The highest score of the QoL is in domain effect of kidney disease (84.1 ± 14.41) followed by sign and symptom problems domain (80.8 ± 13.8); burden of kidney diseases (73.6 ± 28.7). While the mental and physical health component domain were the lowest score (39.8 ± 8.89 & 46.8 ± 9.4) most of patients.