Exercise Renal Rehabilitation Program: Psychosocial Effects

1 January 1997

journal article
clinical trial
Published by S. Karger AG in Nephron

Vol. 77 (2) , 152-158
https://doi.org/10.1159/000190266

Abstract

The aim of this study was to assess the psychosocial effects of exercise training on hemodialysis (HD) patients. Thirty-one uremic patients, aged 50.6 ± 11.6 years, on maintenance HD were studied. Twenty patients were selected at random for a 6-month exercise renal rehabilitation program (ERRP) consisting of 3 weekly sessions of exercise training. The other 11 patients were assigned to sedentary control status. A formal psychosocial assessment, which included affective (Beck Depression Inventory, BDI), quality of life (Quality of Life Index, QLI) and personality (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, EPQ) parameters, was performed with validated questionnaires at the beginning and the end of the ERRP. After training significant improvement occurred in physical capacity (VO_2maχ increased from 16.8 ± 6.2 to 23.2 ± 7.6 ml/kg/min, p 2max in the ERRP group it was suggested that the most severely depressed patients got the greatest beneficial effects from exercise training. Moreover, trained patients demonstrated an improvement in QLI (from 6.3 ± 1.5 to 9.0 ± 0.9, p

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