Assessment of treatment burden and its impact on quality of life in dialysis-dependent and pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease patients

Abstract

This study suggests that a considerable proportion of CKD patients suffered from treatment-related burden and deterioration in HR-QOL at a varying degree of seriousness. HD patients experienced significantly higher burden of treatment and lower HR-QOL compared to pre-dialysis patients and that HR-QOL declines as treatment burden increases. Therefore, treatment-related burden should be considered in CKD management and factors that increase it should be considered when designing healthcare interventions directed to CKD patients.