The Review of Patients’ Quality of Life With Chronic Kidney Failure

Abstract

Chronic kidney failure is a disease with a global prevalece of height. The high incedence of chronic kidney failure requires special care to improve the quality of life is the state where a person feels compertabel and saitisfied in everyday life, including physical, emotional, social and spiritual functions. Limitation of all activities, both physical and psychological, is often the cause of the decreased quality of life of patients with chronic kidney failure. This article is a systematic review that discusses the quality of life of patients with chronic kidney failure. period are inclusion criteria. PRISMA diagrams (Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews) are used to assist in the selection of articles that fit the established inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results of the systematic review showed that as many as 87 articles were screened according to the study of the abstract and title. The team of authors obtained 38 articles according to the inclusion criteria, while the other 49 articles were exclusion criteria. This systematic review shows that the quality of life in patients with chronic kidney failure is decreasing in various domains. Patients experience decreased quality of life in term of finances, work, physical limitions, mental and social roles.This situations is exacerbated if the patient is undergoing hemodialysis therapy. Physical limitations is the worst domain and has the lowest score compared to other domains. Older age, comorbid diabetes mellitus, higher stage of CKD and longer durataion of haemodyalisations according to influnce the quality of life of chronic kidney failure.