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Table 3 Comparing questionnaire

From: Who have a better-kidney-related quality of life: peritoneal dialysis or hemodialysis patients? A cross sectional study from Saudi Arabia

n = 152

p-value

Who had a better score?

Item 3: Does your health now limit you in some activities like climbing several flights of stairs?

0.020

PD

Item 5: During the past 4 weeks, were you limited in the kind of work or other activities in your work or other regular daily activities as a result of your physical health?

0.005

PD

Item 8: During the past 4 weeks, how much did pain interfere with your normal work (including both work outside the home and housework)?

 < 0.001

PD

Item 11: How much of the time during the past 4 weeks, have you felt downhearted and blue?

0.026

HD

Item 13: My kidney disease interferes too much with my life

0.031

PD

Item 19: During the past 4 weeks, to what extent were you bothered by cramps?

0.016

PD

Item 26: During the past 4 weeks, to what extent were you bothered by numbness in hands or feet?

 < 0.001

PD

Item 31: How much does kidney disease bother you in your ability to work around the house?

0.018

PD

  1. n Sample size
  2. • Comparison done using Mann–Whitney U test
  3. • The rest of the questionnaire items can be found in Supplementary files