The Evaluation of Demographical, Clinical and Laboratory Characteristics and the Factors That Influence Health-Related Quality of Life in Hemodialysis Patients in Konya

OBJECTIVE: In this study, we aimed to evaluate relation between the health-related quality of life and demography-clinic-laboratory characteristics of hemodialysis patients in Konya. METHODS: 511 patients (279 male, 232 female) were studied. Mean age was 47.8±15.6 years. SF-36 test was administered on patients to evaluate the quality of life and physical-mental component scores were calculated. RESULTS: Mean physical and mental component scores were 47.2±23.1 and 53.2±21.1, respectively. There was a significant relation between physical-mental component scores and age, sex, educational level, employment status, serum albumin and Hb levels. Moreover, we found positive correlation between physicalmental component scores and serum albumin and Hb levels, but there was a negative correlation between the same scores and age. CONCLUSION: Because of the important relation between healthrelated quality of life and morbidity-mortality, health-related quality of life in dialysis patients must be evaluated periodically.