Table 4 Health and disability measures by type of treatment, location and time on treatment
| Not on dialysis (N = 56) | Type of dialysis | Location | Time on dialysis | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Haemodialysis (n = 109) | Peritoneal (n = 60) | p value * | Home (n = 70) | In centre (n = 99) | p value * | Incident (< 1 year) (n = 50) | Prevalent (1–3 years) (n = 57) | Prevalent (> 3 years) (n = 62) | p value * | |
| EQ5D_VAS Health state today(median & IQR) |
70 (50 to 80) |
70 (60 to 80) |
67.5 (50 to 80) | 0.54 |
62.5 (50 to 80) |
70 (60 to 80) | 0.01 |
67.5 (50 to 80) |
70 (60 to 80) |
70 (50 to 80) | 0.49 |
| FACIT total score (median & IQR |
91.4 (83.9 to 96.6) |
90.5 (78.2 to 95.3) |
90.2 (84.7 to 96.0) | 0.90 |
90.1 (83.6 to 95.9) |
91.2 (78.2 to 95.8) | 0.64 |
85.7 (74.5 to 95.9) |
90.1 (83.0 to 95.0) |
91.7 (82.4 to 96.3) | 0.09 |
| Personal Wellbeing Index total score (median & IQR) |
76.9 (66.3 to 87.5) |
78.8 (68.8 to 87.5) |
76.3 (62.5 to 83.8) | 0.45 |
76.3 (62.5 to 83.8) |
80 (68.9 to 87.5) | 0.23 |
79.4 (65.0 to 85.6) |
75.0 (65.0 to 83.8) |
78.8 (70.0 to 87.5) | 0.49 |
| WHODAS score (median & IQR). |
10.0 (5.0 to 15.0) |
11.0 (6.0 to 17.5) |
11.5 (5.0 to 19.0) | 0.73 |
10.5 (5.0 to 19.0) |
11.0 (6.0 to 18.0) | 0.73 |
11.0 (5.0 to 17.0) |
11.5 (8.0 to 16.0) |
11.5 (5.0 to 19.0) | 0.88 |
| Kidney symptom score (Median & IQR) |
78.4 (62.5 to 88.6) |
81.3 (66.6 to 87.5) |
77.1 (62.5 to 87.5) | 0.15 |
79.2 (64.6 to 87.5) |
81.3 (66.7 to 89.6) | 0.53 |
79.2 (60.4 to 85.4) |
81.3 (64.6 to 87.5) |
81.3 (68.8 to 89.6) | 0.87 |
