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Quality of Life Among Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Who are Undergoing Haemodialysis at Two Selected Teaching Hospitals in Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.author Premadasa, M.A. S. S.
dc.contributor.author Hulangamuwa, H. G. I. M.
dc.contributor.author Wijesooriya, W. A. D. H.
dc.contributor.author Amarasekara, T. D.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-09-26T06:41:58Z
dc.date.available 2022-09-26T06:41:58Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Premadasa, M.A. S. S., et al. (2019). Quality of Life Among Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Who are Undergoing Haemodialysis at Two Selected Teaching Hospitals in Sri Lanka. OUSL Journal, 2019 Vol. 14, No. 02, (pp. 31-55) . en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/12416
dc.description.abstract Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) has shown a rising trend in Sri Lanka. Haemodialysis (HD) is a method of managing patients with CKD. Improving and maintaining Quality of Life (QOL) is an essential goal of nursing care for patients with CKD. However, there is a paucity of data on QOL among patients with CKD who are undergoing HD in Sri Lanka. Therefore, this study aimed at assessing the QOL among patients with CKD who are undergoing HD at haemodialysis units in selected teaching hospitals in Sri Lanka. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with purposively selected participants (n=250) at haemodialysis units in the above settings. Data was obtained through two pre-tested questionnaires, Socio-demographic questionnaire and WHOQOL-BREF, and they were analysed using descriptive statistics. Ethical approval was obtained from the ethics review committee, KAATSU International University (KIU), Sri Lanka. Findings revealed that the majority of participants were male 184 (73.6%), and belonged to the 30-64 age group. Nearly half of them (48.4%) have undergone en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.title Quality of Life Among Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Who are Undergoing Haemodialysis at Two Selected Teaching Hospitals in Sri Lanka en_US
dc.type Article en_US
dc.identifier.doi http://doi.org/10.4038/ouslj.v14i2.7430 en_US


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