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Citation

Şahin ZA (2019) Adaptation of Dialysis Patients to Activities of Daily Life and Evaluation of Quality of Life. Int Arch Nurs Health Care 5:127. doi.org/10.23937/2469-5823/1510127

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© 2019 Şahin ZA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

ORIGINAL ARTICLE | OPEN ACCESS DOI: 10.23937/2469-5823/1510127

Adaptation of Dialysis Patients to Activities of Daily Life and Evaluation of Quality of Life

Zümrüt Akgün şahin, PhD, RN*

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Science Kars, Kafkas University, Turkey

Abstract

Background

This cross-sectional study consisted of 145 patients with hemodialysis treatment who applied to the Medicine Polyclinic of a hospital in Turkey.

Materials and methods

This cross-sectional study consisted of 145 patients with hemodialysis treatment who applied to the Medicine Polyclinic of a hospital in Turkey.

Findings

Physically insufficient patients. It turned out that those with visual, hearing and taste problems cannot perform independently of daily activities. In the meantime, by using an auxiliary device (walking stick, hearing aid glasses, prosthesis), while performing his/her daily activities independently.

Conclusion

This study was concluded these patients had insufficiency in their daily life activities, tried to complete their physical insufficient by using assistive tools, and they had high levels of and low levels of life quality.