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Volume 6, Issue 3 (Suppl) J Nurs Care
ISSN: 2167-1168 JNC, an open access journal Nursing Edu 2017
May 22- 24, 2017
May 22- 24, 2017 Osaka, Japan
20th World Nursing
Education Conference
Relationship between symptom clusters and quality of life among patients with CKD
Anucha Taiwong, Nirobol Kanogsunthornrat and Suchira Chaiviboonthum
Mahidol University Ramathibodi, Thailand
This descriptive correlation research aimed to identify the relationship between unpleasant symptom clusters and quality of life
among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The theory of unpleasant symptoms was used as the conceptual framework.
The study participants consisted of 150 patients with stage 3 to 4 CKD who were treated at CKD clinic of one tertiary hospital in
Thailand and were chosen purposively. Data collection was conducted during January, 2016 toMarch, 2016 by using 3 forms of patient
general health information, the CKD unpleasant symptoms, and Quality of Life (SF-36). Descriptive statistics and factor analysis and
correlation were used to analyze the data. Statistical significance was set at 0.05. The results revealed that patients with CKD stage 3-4
had 28 unpleasant symptoms. The most frequently perceived were 4 symptoms of limbs numbness, bone and joint pain, nocturia, and
fatigue. The 28 unpleasant symptoms could be grouped into 8 clusters with 52.56% of explained variance. Among 8 symptom clusters,
psychological and emotional cluster was found to have the greatest severity and the strongest negative correlation with all aspect of
QOL. Negative correlations were also found between the remaining symptom clusters and physical component of QOL except the
urinary tract cluster. This study provides important information related to unpleasant symptom clusters that may deteriorate QOL of
CKD patients. Nurses should address the finding in this study in planning to prevent or reduce QOL deterioration.
Biography
Anucha Taiwong is a Graduate with Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (1st Class Honours) from Boromarajonani College of Nursing, Suphanburi and now Nursing
Instructor in Adult and Elder Nursing Department, Srimahasarakham College of Nursing.
Anucha Taiwong et al., J Nurs Care 2017, 6:3 (Suppl)