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KMID : 0377619970620020185
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1997 Volume.62 No. 2 p.185 ~ p.197
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A Survey of Quality of Life and Sexual Satisfaction in Hemodialysis Patients and Renal Transplantation Patients
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Abstract
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This descriptive study measured the quality of life and sexual satisfaction for hemodialysis patients and renal transplantation patients as an attempt to give nurses basic data to improve their life satisfaction of hemodialysis patients and renal transplantation patients.
The research design was a descriptive study and the data were obtained by a questionnaire.
These data were collected from 134 hemodialysis patients undergoing hemodialysis treatment in three university hospitals and four dialysis clinics and 111 renal transplantation patients following check up in three university hospitals after renal transplantation for 30 days from August 4, to Sep. 7, 1996. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection The tools included the quality of life scale by Rho Yu Cha to measure the degree of quality of life and the sexual satisfaction scale by Chang Soon Bok to measure the degree of sexual satisfaction.
Data analysis was done by the SAS computer program and descriptive statistics, t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient, Cronbach- a were used. The reliability of quality of life scale was 0.94 and the reliability of sexual satisfaction scale was 0.94.
The results of this study were as follows
1. The item mean score for quality of life of the total subject was 3.11. The item mean score for quality of life for hemodial;ysis patient was 2.96, that of renal transplantation patients was 3.25. And the degree of quality of life of renal transplantation patient was higher than that of hemodialysis patient(t=-5.80, p=0.0001). For six factors in the quality of life scale, the mean scores of subscales were in the order of The highest score 3.46 for family relationship the second score 3.23 for emotional state, the third score 3.21 for relationship with neighbors, and the lowest score 2.92 for economic life.
2. The item mean score of sexual satisfaction for total subjects was 2.86. The item mean score for sexual satisfaction for hemodialysis patient was 2.59, and 3.19 for renal transplantation patients. Thus, the degree of sexual satisfaction of renal transplantation patient was higher than that of hemodialysis patient(t=-5.68, p=0.0001).
In conclusion, it was found that the quality of life of renal transplantation patients was higher than that of hemodialysis patients and the sexual satisfaction of renal transplantation patients was higher than that of hemodialysis patients. Therefore to improve the quality of life an adequate nursing intervention will be needed for hemodialysis patients and continuous education and support will be needed for renal transplantation patients to maintain and improve quality of life.
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