Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Patients with maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) have relatively stable level of physiological healthy, and obviously elevation of long-term survival rate, but no focus was put on psychological issue of those people.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate effect of health educational intervention on quality of life in patients with MHD.
METHODS: A total of 72 patients with MHD, including 38 males and 34 females, aged 27-86 years, were surveyed with SF-36 scale, before and after receiving health educational intervention during 3 months. The related influence factors on quality of life were analyzed.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The quality of life in patients with MHD was significantly correlated with age, supports by family, dialysis term, dialysis frequency, cost type, economic income, residual urine volume, complication, sport time per week, as well as clinical index (P < 0.05). After health education on MHD patients, the quality of life including physical and mental component summary was obviously improved than before (P < 0.05 or P< 0.01). In addition, we found that, the mental health had more effect on quality of life than that of physical health. Health educational intervention can improve the quality of life in patients with MHD.