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Quality of life in patients with pre-dialysis Chronic Kidney Disease

: Quality of life (QOL) is an important, yet neglected aspect of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) care. They may have suboptimal quality of life. To assess the quality of life in patients with pre-dialysis Chronic Kidney Disease. A descriptive design was used. Consequently, sixty subjects were recruited from Nephrology outpatient department, PGIMER, Chandigarh. The quality of life was assessed by interviewing them using Kidney Disease and Quality of Life questionnaire (KDQOLTM-36). Results showed that majority of the subjects had low scores on most of domains of quality of life, mainly burden of kidney disease, physical and mental health composite with mean scores of 51.14, 40.72 and 40.93 respectively. Higher scores were observed in the subscale- symptom/problem list and effects of kidney disease with mean scores of 81.59 and 87.29 respectively. The present study revealed that CKD patients have impaired QOL. Mostly affected domains are burden of kidney disease, physical and mental health composite.