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Keywords
Depression
Haemodialysis
Chronic Renal Insufficiency
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the anxiety and depression levels in 30 patients (15 women) with chronic renal insufficiency and haemodialysis treatment, ages between 25 and 85 (mean: 53.67; DE: 15.83). A semi-structured interview for dialysed patients, Beck’s Depression Inventory-II and Spielberger’s State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were used. 56.7% of participants manifested some degree of depression. Positives correlations were observed between state anxiety levels and depression scores; and between state and trait anxiety. State anxiety was higher on chronic renal patients of older age and during the first months of haemodialysis. Depression levels were higher on patients without work and on the older ones.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.