European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

ESRD ASSOCIATED PSYCHOSIS AND DEPRESSION: PREVALENCE AND CONSEQUENCES IN END STAGE RENAL DISEASE AT HEALTHCARE SECTOR

Maria Ayub*, Samra Wahid, Nimra Shahzad, Syeda Bismah Javaid & zehra Ashraf

ABSTRACT

Hemodialysis (HD) is a life sustaining treatment for patients with ESRD. One of the commonest symptom present in hemodialysis patient in depression. As there is no recognized fact about the prevalence of depression in hemodialysis patients in Pakistan thus a multi centre study (cross sectional survey) is planned to identify the frequency of depression on maintenance hemodialysis patients 18-75 years, with no psychiatric illness and on hemodialysis for more than 3 months. The data collected and statically analyzed and compared to may co morbidities parameters and concluded that HD patients suffered from depression but age doesnot show any effect on its prevalence. After careful consideration we can conclude that Hemodialysis patients of 68.1% were suffering from poor sleep, 10.8% from daytime sleepiness, 72.3% from depression and 44.7 % were the prey of fatigue while the rest of them 31.9% free from poor sleep, 89.2% were free from daytime sleepiness , 27.7% free from depression and 55.3% were free from fatigue and this consequences clearly reflects prevalence of depression in Hemodialysis patients.

Keywords: Prevalence,depression,psychosis.