Avaliação do estado de humor, da função sexual e da qualidade de vida em pacientes com insuficiência renal crônica submetidos a hemodiálise

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2006

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Introduction: The prevalence of chronic renal disease has increased in recent years,and disease has become a public health issue worldwide. The dialysis treatment, used in the most advanced stage of the disease, increases the patients life expectancy and improves their quality of life. Patients under hemodialysis treatment commonly have mood swings, but these changes are not properly diagnosed. Depressive appears to affect their quality of life and sexual function. Objectives: The general objective was to evaluate parameters related to emotional state, sexuality and quality of life in chronic renal disease patients receiving hemodialysis treatment. The specific objectives were: to determine if there were mood swing; to identify possible erectile dysfunction; to evaluate quality of life in these patients; to correlate mood shift with quality of life; and to correlate mood swings with erectile dysfunction. Methods: Forty seven adult male patients who underwent hemodialysis procedure for over six months were evaluated in relation to mood state, using the Hamilton depression scale. The life quality was evaluated using the questionnaire Kidney Disease and Quality of Life Short Form (KDQOL-SF) questionnaire, and the sexual function was assessed using the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF). Laboratorial data, such as hemoglobin, hematocrit, albumin, ferritin and dialysis dose of (Kt/v), were obtained from the patients files. Statistical analyses were conducted using Fishers test for comparison frequencies, and the Spearmans correlation test was used to evaluate the correlation among the results obtained from Hamilton scale over the KDQOL-SF and the IIEF domains. The significance level p<0.05 was adopted Results: Based on the Hamilton Depression Scale, 32 (68%) patients had mood shifts and swings (score ≥ 7) and 15 (32%), didnt (score ≤ 6). We found significant negative correlations among the scores obtained from theHamilton Depression Scale and the following parameters of KDQOL-SF scale: list of symptoms and problems (rs=-0.399 , p=0.005) quality of social interaction (rs= -0.433, p = 0.002), sleep (rs= -0.585, p = 0.000), general health (rs= - 0.475, p = 0.000), emotional well-being (rs= -0.582, p = 0.000), social function (rs= -0.354, p = 0.015 ) and energy/fatigue (rs= -0.518, p = 0.000). We did not find a significant correlation between the score obtained from the Hamilton Depression Scale and the IIEF domains (p>0.05). However, we found a significant positive among IIEF domains and the following KDQOL-SF domains: erectile function was correlated with "effects of renal disease" (rs= 0.340, p=0.019), with "quality of social interaction" (rs= 0.328, p=0.024), with "sexual function" (rs=0.583, p=0.000), with "sleep" (rs=0.343, p=0.018), with "physical functioning" (rs=0.391, p=0.006), with "general health "(rs=0.,362, p= 0.012), with "emotional function" (rs=0.286, p=0.005) and with "energy/fatigue" (rs=0.365, p=0.011). The orgasmic function showed correlations with "overload of renal disease" (rs=0.321, p=0.028), with "sexual function" (rs= 0.508, p=0.000), with "physical functioning" (rs=0.384, p=0.007) with "physical function" (rs=0.363, p=0.012) with "general health" (rs=0.349, p=0.016), with "emotional well-being (rs=0.324, p=0.026), with "emotional function" (rs= 0.321, p=0.028) and with "energy/fatigue" (rs= 0.281, p=0.005). The sexual domain desire of the IIEF was correlated with "effect of renal disease" (rs= 0.312, p=0.033), with "sexual function" (rs= 0.394 , p= 0,006), with "sleep" (rs= 0.393, p=0.006), with "physical functioning" (rs= 0.422, p=0.003), with "general health" (rs= 0.302, p=0.038), with "emotional well-being" (rs= 0.422, p=0.003), and with "energy/fatigue" (rs= 0.398, p=0.005). The satisfaction in the sexual intercourse domain of the IIEF showed a significant positive correlation with "list of symptoms and problems" (rs= 0.326, p=0.025), with "effect of renal disease" (rs= 0.369 , p=0.010), "sexual function" (rs= 0.696, p=0.000), "physical functioning" (rs=0.414, p=0.003),"general health" (rs=0.412, p=0.004), "emotional well-being" (rs=0.334, p=0.022), "emotional function" (rs= 0.299, p= 0.041) and with "energy /fatigue" (rs=0.370, p=0.010). The satisfaction with sexual life domain of the IIEF had significant positive correlations with "list of symptoms and problems" (rs= 0.403, p=0.005 ), "effect of renal disease" (rs=0.345, p=0.017), overload of the renal disease" (rs=0.343, p=0.018), "quality of the social interaction" (rs=0.302, p=0.039), "sexual function" (rs=0.695, p=0.000), "sleep" (rs= 0.288, p=0.049), "physical functioning" (rs=0.331, p=0.023), "general health" (rs=0.444, p=0.001), "emotional wellbeing" (rs=0.306, p=0.036), and with "energy/fatigue" (rs=0.314, p=0.032). The IIEF total score reflecting the sexual function as a whole had significant positive and correlations with the "list of symptoms and problems" (rs=0.329, p=0.024), "effect of renal disease" (rs= 0.369, p=0.010), "quality of social interaction" (rs=0.288, p=0.049), "sexual function" (rs=0.670, p=0.000), "sleep" (rs= 0.336, p=0.21), "physical functioning" (rs=0.,429, p=0.002), "general health" (rs=0.454, p=0.001), "emotional well-being" (rs=0.371, p=0.010), " emotional function" (rs=0.302, p= 0.039), and with "energy/fatigue" (rs= 0.405, p= 0.004). The erectile domain of the IIEF showed that 38 of the 47 patients (80.8%) had erectile dysfunction. Although most patients presented erectile dysfunction and mood shift and swings according to the Hamilton Scale, no correlation between depression and erectile dysfunction was found. (p>0.05, accurate Fisher s test). Conclusions: We found a high index of mood shift and sexual dysfunction in patients with chronic renal disease under hemodialysis treatment. The scores obtained in the Hamilton Scale showed a negative correlations with some domains of the questionnaire of quality of life related to health (KDQOL-SF). This suggests that the depressive is associated with a lower score in quality of life for patients under hemodialysis treatment. In contrast sexual function, evaluated by different domains of the international questionnaire of erectile function (IIEF), showed positive correlations with different domains of the KDQOL-SF, suggests that the sexual dysfunction is correlated with lower scores in quality of life of the patients studied. The main domains of the KDQOL-SF that showed stronger correlations with the mood state were: sleep, general health, emotional well-being and energy /fatigue. The main domains of the KDQOL-SF that had stronger and more significant correlations with the sexual function evaluated by the IIEF were: sexual function, sleep, physical functioning, general health, emotional well-being and energy/fatigue We can conclude that the patients with chronic renal insufficiency, under hemodialysis treatment, present: high index of mood shifts, and swings, most having mild depression and dysthymia; high index of erectile dysfunction and poor life quality. These data suggest that these patients life quality is negatively affected by depression. Further studies should be encouraged to measure the degree of conditions such as mood shifts and swings and sexual dysfunction in the patients with chronic renal insufficiency. Well-thought-of interventions seeking to minimize patients morbidity and-mortality, may be to minimize the harmful effects of those conditions and consequently improve the patients quality of life.

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hemodiálise escala de depressão de hamilton mood quality of life related to the health, kdqol-sf função sexual hamilton depression scale Índice internacional de função erétil medicina hemodialysis humor international index of erectile function doença renal crônica qualidade de vida relacionada á saúde, kdqol-sf sexual function chronic renal disease

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