The effects of artistic and social activities during hemodialysis on the life quality, pain perception, anxiety status of the patients and intradialytic complications

Introduction: We aimed to investigate the effects of social and artistic activity support on quality of life, pain perception, and anxiety status in hemodialysis (HD) patients and the relation between occupational therapy and frequent complications of HD.Methods: Volunteer instructors trained 22 patients participated in this study for wood painting for 4 hours/day, 2-3 days a week for six months. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI I and STAI II) and Visual Analog Scale were applied before the social activity and at the 6th month. The quality of life evaluated with Short Form-36.Results: The patients who participated in the social activity more than 25 hours formed the study group (n=9), and those participated less than 25 hours made control group (n=13). There were significant differences in initial and 6th month values in both STAI I and STAI II scores of the study group, and only in STAI II score in the control group (p=0.008, p=0.015, p=0.003, respectively). In the study group, while STAI I and II mean was 49.9 and 52.8 in the first month, respectively, it decreased to 30.0 and 38.8 in 6th month, respectively. In the control group, in the first month mean of STAI II score was 56.9 and it decreased to 45.3 in the sixth month. The mean of physical function capacity from SF-36 parameters increased from 73.9 to 84.4 (p=0.026) in the study group and from 47.7 to 75.8 (p=0.002) in the control group. The difference between study and control group was statistically significant (p = 0.029). Conclusions: Our results support that social and artistic activities during HD have positive effects on chronic HD patients in terms of physical functioning level

Hemodiyaliz sırasında gerçekleştirilen sanatsal ve sosyal faaliyetlerin hastaların yaşam kalitesi, ağrı, kaygı durumları ve intradiyalitik komplikasyonlar üzerindeki etkileri

Introduction: We aimed to investigate the effects of social and artistic activity support on quality of life, pain perception, and anxiety status in hemodialysis (HD) patients and the relation between occupational therapy and frequent complications of HD.Methods: Volunteer instructors trained 22 patients participated in this study for wood painting for 4 hours/day, 2-3 days a week for six months. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI I and STAI II) and Visual Analog Scale were applied before the social activity and at the 6th month. The quality of life evaluated with Short Form-36.Results: The patients who participated in the social activity more than 25 hours formed the study group (n=9), and those participated less than 25 hours made control group (n=13). There were significant differences in initial and 6th month values in both STAI I and STAI II scores of the study group, and only in STAI II score in the control group (p=0.008, p=0.015, p=0.003, respectively). In the study group, while STAI I and II mean was 49.9 and 52.8 in the first month, respectively, it decreased to 30.0 and 38.8 in 6th month, respectively. In the control group, in the first month mean of STAI II score was 56.9 and it decreased to 45.3 in the sixth month. The mean of physical function capacity from SF-36 parameters increased from 73.9 to 84.4 (p=0.026) in the study group and from 47.7 to 75.8 (p=0.002) in the control group. The difference between study and control group was statistically significant (p = 0.029). Conclusions: Our results support that social and artistic activities during HD have positive effects on chronic HD patients in terms of physical functioning level