181 - QUALITY OF LIFE OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE IN HEMODIALYSIS: A REVIEW

Abstract

This is an exploratory research descriptive prospective data and a quantitative approach, carried out in electronic databases available on Bank of Thesis and Dissertations USP, UFRN and Universia Library, during the months of March and April 2009. The descriptors used for data collection were: "Qualidade de vida"; "Insuficiência renal crônica" and "Hemodiálise" (Quality of Life and Renal Insufficiency Chronic and Hemodialysis). Found a total of 06 studies distributed as follows: 03 in the USP, 01 in UFRN, 02 in Universia. The work surveyed utilized the cross-sectional and descriptive study, both with 50.0%, with a quantitative approach (100.0%), published as a dissertation (83.3%) and available in full text (100.0% ), in 2006 (50.0%), 100.0% available in Portuguese, and were in full text. The place of data collection, most of the studies was developed in the State of Sao Paulo, in the cities of Ribeirão Preto (33.3%) and 66.7% were nursing. The instrument to collect more data used to measure QOL, we identified the WHOQOL-Bref alone (50.0%) or in conjunction with the KDQOL-SF™ (16.7%). Conclude crucially important to continue research on the subject in question, since it has been diagnosed a shortage in published studies.