Avaliação da qualidade de vida de pacientes renais crônicos e de seus cuidadores integrais, uma pesquisa quanti-qualitativa

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the quality of life of chronic renal patients and their integral caregivers. The treatment for such pathology imposes several limitations for the patient and that for needing constant care the limitations also occur in the lives of their integral caregivers thus becoming a health problem. The place for data collection was a hemodialysis clinic located in the city of Marabá, which serves several neighboring municipalities. The research

was carried out with twenty patients and fifteen caregivers and was done through semi- structured interviews and made use of questionnaires adapted for this public. Among the findings of this research it was possible to identify that Chronic Kidney Disease is a pathology that aggregates factors that interfere in the good quality of life of the affected patients as well as in the lives of those who assume the role of caregivers of these people.