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Background: The aim of the study is to assess the quality of life in patients with CKD on haemodialysis more than three months at a community hospital and also identify characteristics that may be associated with their worsening quality of life. Material and Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted at the in-patient department (IPD) of a community hospital. This study included 39 CKD patients and used a systematic random sampling method for quantitative analysis. This study utilized a short form KDQoL SF-36(v1.2) questionnaire to assess HRQoL in CKD patients. Data were collected, analysed by frequency table, percentage analysis, statistical significance test was done using SPSS, chi-square test. Results and Discussion: Among thirty-nine patients, 62% were male 38% were female. The age distribution among the selected samples 18% were below 50years, 82% were above 50years. This study gives positive outcome compared between the patients physical and emotional health problems, in this 66.7% had emotional problem such as feeling depressed or anxious affect the physical health accomplished less in regular daily activities (P=.010), 60% had both emotional and physical accomplished less in regular activities(P=.03), 72.2% had emotional problems which cut down the amount of time spent on work affect the physical health were limited in the kind of work(P<.001), 72.2% had physical health limited in the kind of work affect accomplished less due to emotional problems (P<.001), 77.8% had physical problems limited in the kind of work due to affect emotional problems did your work or activities less carefully than usual(P=.003), 75% had body pain during the past 4 week and how much did pain interfere with your normal work (P<.001),40% were said in this statement my health is excellent and I am as healthy as anybody I know (P=.004)Conclusion: The findings of the study demonstrated that there was a significant decrease in HRQoL in CKD Patients and it also revealed CKD imposes various restrictions on patients physical and mental functioning. Timely interventions to improve HRQol can significantly benefit patient health.
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Keywords: In-Patient Department (IPD), chronic kidney disease (CKD), Health – Related Quality of Life (HRQoL).
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"Assessing the quality of life in chronic kidney disease patients on haemodialysis using KDQOL (SF- 36 v1.2 Health Survey)", International Journal of Science & Engineering Development Research (www.ijrti.org), ISSN:2455-2631, Vol.10, Issue 2, page no.a197-a231, February-2025, Available :http://www.ijrti.org/papers/IJRTI2502025.pdf
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