Quality of life of the patients in hemodialytic treatment: occupational therapy intervention

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease and hemodialysis bring to the patient limitations, which affect the quality of life. The study aimed to describe the results on quality of life after occupational therapy intervention with patients on hemodialysis in a renal replacement therapy sector in Belém/PA and to categorize the activities of the occupational therapy program. The study is observational, transverse, descriptive, analytical, type of case series. The WHOQOL-Bref with 15 participants was used to evaluate the quality of life, and to guide the individual therapeutic plan, a list of Occupational Role Identification was applied. The first instrument measures the quality of life in four domains, the physical, the environmental, the psychological and the social. The second instrument assesses the performance of occupational roles over time. The WHOQOL-bref was applied at the beginning and after the interventions. A biostatistical analysis was carried out using the software BioEstat version 5.3. As a result, there was an increase in the self-rated quality of life of 7.2% in the environmental domain, 12.8% in the social area, 10.1% in the psychological and 12.5% in the physical, highlighting significant improvements in all The domains, demonstrating the importance of the Occupational Therapist approach to the patient undergoing hemodialysis.