Psychosocial factors and clinical outcome on CAPD.

Full Abstract

Patient dropout from chronic peritoneal dialysis (CPD) and transfer to hemodialysis remains a major problem with patients on CPD. Peritonitis, exit-site infections, and medical complications requiring hospitalization often adversely affect the outcome of CPD. The role of psychosocial factors in determining patient outcome and influencing the rates of these complications is not clear. Our group has employed a variety of instruments, including the Patient Related Anxiety Scale (PRAS), Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI), Kupfer-Detre System II somatic symptom scale (KDS-II), and a patient self-assessed quality of life (PAQOL) questionnaire to assess quality of life and to objectively evaluate the psychosocial status of the patient treated with CPD. The present study extends previous observations by relating the results of these psychosocial instruments to the incidence of various complications in 103 patients maintained on CPD. Patients were divided into low-scoring (lowest symptoms of depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms, and best quality of life evaluation), intermediate, and high-scoring (highest symptoms of depression, anxiety, somatic symptoms, and worst quality of life) categories. The peritonitis rates, exit-site infection rates, and days of hospitalization of the three categories were then compared. The results demonstrate significantly higher complication rates in the high-scoring when compared to the low-scoring patients. Thus screening patients maintained on CPD with objective measures of psychosocial functioning may enable caregivers to more accurately predict which patients are at greater risk for developing medical complications.

Author information

Author/s: Juergensen, P H (PH); Wuerth, D B (DB); Juergensen, D M (DM); Finkelstein, S H (SH); Steele, T E (TE); Kliger, A S (AS); Finkelstein, F O (FO);

Affiliation: New Haven CAPD, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Advances in peritoneal dialysis. Conference on Peritoneal Dialysis (Adv Perit Dial), published in CANADA. (Language: eng)

Reference: 1997-; vol 13 (issue ) : pp 121-4

Dates: Created 1998/01/21; Completed 1998/01/21; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 9360664, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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