Effect Of Education On Life Quality Of Hemodialysis Chronic Kidney Failure Patient In Dr. M.Yunus Hospital Bengkulu City

Abstract

The life quality being a noteworthy measurement after the patient undergoes renal replacement therapy such as hemodialysis or renal transplantation. The life quality of associated with chronic kidney disease, but also associated with lifelong therapy. As a result, the life quality of the hemodialysis patient being generally lower than other patients of congestive heart failure, chronic lung disease, or cancer. Health education to any individual patients includes planning, implementing and evaluating the educational programs which are designed explicitly for patient needs. Increased knowledge and education, as well as patient experience, are designed to help any individual patients and the community to improve their health and thus affect their attitudes toward health. Nurses function as both care providers and service providers to patients, especially hemodialysis nurses, play a role in improving the patient life quality whose chronic renal failure, not only in the primary but also a secondary and tertiary failure. Undoubtedly, nurses play a role in providing health education to patients. This research was a pre-experiment with a specific design called one group pretest-posttest, which reveals a causal relationship between the educational intervention and patient life quality, by involving one subject group (Nursalam, 2013). The research location was in hemodialysis specific room in the hospital of dr. M. Yunus Hospital, Bengkulu City. There had been 15 respondents in the research. The statistical tests show that the p-value of 0.002, which conclude that the educational intervention significantly influences patient life quality. KeywordsEducation, Life Quality, Hemodialysis, Chronic Renal Failure