J Korean Acad Adult Nurs.  1997 Dec;9(3):505-511.

Fatigue in Patients on Dialysis

• Kim MK
• Kim HS

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to provide fundamental data by figuring out fatigue differences in patients on hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. The subjects for this study were 49 patients on hemodialysis and 54 patients on peritioneal dialysis at C university medical center in Seoul Results were as follows: 1. The average fatigue score in peritoneal dialysis patients tended to be higher in patients on peritoneal dialysis(42.22) than in patients on hemodialysis(39.41). Peritoneal dialysis patients showed higher score than hemodialysis patients in some general characteristics in groups with male, ones in 20's, 40's, 50's, married, college degree, having religion, having occupation, and not take regular nap. 2. The percents of this subjects with feel fatigue at the time of survey was higher in peritoneal dialysis patients(68.5%) than in hemodialysis patients(57.1%). The percentages of the subjects who feel fatigue in peritioneal dialysis patients was higher than hemodialysis patients, and the high tendencies in peritoneal dialysis patients in were obsemed in groups with male, ones in 30's, to have college degree, periods so of 1-2years in peritoneal dialysis, region, men without occupation, regular exercises, regular nap etc.

MeSH Terms

Academic Medical Centers
Dialysis*
Exercise
Fatigue*
Humans
Male
Occupations
Peritoneal Dialysis
Renal Dialysis
Seoul