Health-Related quaHty of Life of Patients

TIOLYANGELUNTYtrRSITY

HOLY

AIYGEL I.]NTVERSITY

GRADUATE

SCHOOT OF

NI.IRSING

Second Trimester School Year 2012 - ²⁰¹³

Health-Related quaHty _of Life of Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis as a Correlate to

Nurses' Caring Behavior

A

sPECrAt PROIECT

Presented

to the

Graduate School

Holy Angel University

In Partial Fulfillment

of the Requirements for tle

^Degree

Master of

Science

in Nuning Maior in Nursing Administration

Byt

ERICK IAY

^S.

DIZON

HOLYANGELT]NIYERSITY

Health-Related quahty _{of Life of Patients} Undergoing Hemodialysis as a Correlate to

Nurses' Caring Behavior

Erick I"y ^{S. Dizon}

Abstnct

This study assessed the present health related qoulity of life (HRQOL) of patients undergoing hemodialysis maintenance

in

Pampanga as

well

^as

the

nursing care they

received. Furthermore this study also assessed the correlation between the quality of life of the patients and care behavior

of the

nurses. One hundred patients undergoing hemodialysis maintenance were included

in

the study. Data were collected through the Kidney Disease and Qgality

of

Life

-

Short Form v1.3 (KDQOF-SD

which is

a self- administered questionnaire that ^assesses the HRQOL of chronic kidney disease patients specially, those who are undergoing dialysis and Caring Behaviors Inventory 24 (CBI-24) a 6-point Likert's scale instrument

that

assesses

the

nurse caring behaviors. Mean of

central tendencies were obtain along

with

standard deviation, Pearson-r was use to assess

the correlation of HRqOL and nursing care behavior.

Results indicate that low KDQOL score were reported by the patients. Furthermore, high CBI scores were reported.

In

addition, there

is

weak

or no

correlation benveen the HRQOL and the nursing care behavior. In totality, patient undergoing haemodialysis in

Pampanga suffer from poor HRQOL and this has weak or no correlation to the nursing care

their

received. Nevertheless

this

^does

not

mean

we

can

now

lose

our

focus on rendering qua1iry nursing care,

but

rafher

this only

proves

that we

should pay our attention to the predictors and be

kin

on assessing our patient's needs, verbal or none verbal.

Keywords: quality of life, hemodialysis, care behavior, chronic kidney disease