Dialysis symptom index burden and symptom clusters in a prospective cohort of dialysis patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dialysis patients experience a high symptom burden, which may adversely impact their quality of life. Whereas other specialties emphasize routine symptom assessment, symptom burden is not well-characterized in dialysis patients. We sought to examine the prevalence and severity of unpleasant symptoms in a prospective hemodialysis cohort.

Methods

Among 122 hemodialysis patients from the prospective Malnutrition, Diet, and Racial Disparities in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) study, CKD-associated symptoms were ascertained by the Dialysis Symptom Index, a validated survey assessing symptom burden/severity (with higher scores indicating greater symptom severity), over 6/2020-10/2020. We examined the presence of (1) individual symptoms and symptom severity scores, and (2)

SUBMITTER: You AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9217843 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature