Kidney Disease-Specific Quality of Life among Patients on Hemodialysis

Table 4

Factors of QoL and relationship with demographic and clinical variable.

Physical component	Age	Education	Income	Diabetes mellitus	Duration of dialysis	Frequency of dialysis	Serum creatinine	Body mass index
Physical functioning	0.05	0.8	0.04	0.83	0.45	0.03	0.76	0.80
Role physical	0.7	0.01	0.54	0.04	0.25	0.29	0.33	0.27
Pain	0.03	0.91	0.82	0.51	0.37	0.05	0.27	0.12
General health	0.01	0.83	0.33	0.02	0.67	0.03	0.11	0.96
Fatigue	0.05	0.03	0.34	0.67	0.04	0.64	0.84	0.20
Mental component
Role-emotional	0.40	0.65	0.63	0.93	0.49	0.36	0.15	0.72
Emotional well	0.82	0.72	0.63	0.34	0.83	0.59	0.45	0.52
Social function	0.04	0.45	0.43	0.67	0.24	0.21	0.32	0.49
Vitality	0.26	0.85	0.36	0.21	0.75	0.38	0.47	0.95
Mental health	0.67	0.46	0.56	0.45	0.34	0.13	0.21	0.85