General Health Related Quality of Life for Renal Transplant Patients Among a Sample at Transplantation Center-Medical City in Baghdad

Abstract

The aim: Study objectives to discover collision scenarios status through studying the most properties of general health related-quality of life (GHR-QoL) of renal transplant patients (RTP), to find out relationships among redistribution of an overall evaluation contents of general questionnaire's items regarding WHO QoL – BERF with some related variables concerning studied patients, such as, (Socio-Demographical Characteristics variables, and Body Mass Index-BMI). Materials and methods: A descriptive study of patients had a renal transplantation conducted, and it was starting the data collection from 3 January to 30 June 2021 in “renal diseases and transplantation center in medical city in Baghdad –Iraq”. Results: The findings of the study indicated that (GHR-QoL) for the studied patients are assigned at a moderate response generally, and they are accounted for the contents questionnaire (Physical, Psychological, Social, and Environmental) main domains. As well as, results show that an overall of the (GHR-QoL) redistribution (under/upper) a cutoff point regarding percentile global mean of score (PGMS) that (SES, and BMI) has reported weak relationships with no significant at P>0.05. Conclusion: Study showed that patients with renal transplant having go down concerning GHR-QoL, since most of studied items regarding of WHO QoL – BERF questionnaire are accounted a moderate evaluation, and this were achieved to a similar degree across all domains of that questionnaire. In light of this, the importance of studying the health status evaluation for health related quality of life with renal transplant patients is confirmed, according to the aforementioned questionnaire, due to its high ability to detect the reservoirs of the effects caused by studied patients.