en اعصاب و روان Neurology پژوهشي Research <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span sans-serif="" style="font-family:Calibri,"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:#2f5496">Background & Objective:</span></span></span></b> <span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with chronic renal diseases is an important factor for physicians to select a dialysis modality. The present study aimed to compare the HRQoL in hemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients.</span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span sans-serif="" style="font-family:Calibri,"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:#2f5496">Materials & Methods: </span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">In this cross-sectional study, a sample of HD patients and a sample of age- and sex-matched PD patients with at least six months dialysis were recruited. Then, the quality of life was assessed using the Short Form Health survey (SF-36). Demographic and disease-related information was also recorded. Then, data were analyzed using the SPSS software (ver. 21).</span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span sans-serif="" style="font-family:Calibri,"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:#2f5496">Results:</span></span></span></b> <span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">Totally, 172 HD patients and 86 age- and sex-matched PD controls were entered into the study. Overall the PD patients had more dialysis per week (P < 0.001). Comparing quality of life between two groups showed significant differences in physical functioning, role-physical, role-emotional and physical component summary observed (P < 0.05). In addition, role physical in HD patients and bodily pain in PD were the worst and best dimensions of quality of life, respectively. </span></span></span></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span sans-serif="" style="font-family:Calibri,"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times=""><span style="color:#2f5496">Conclusion:</span></span></span></b> <span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span new="" roman="" style="font-family:" times="">The findings suggest that patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis had a better quality of life in most measures. It seems that we need to educate and encourage patients to choose peritoneal dialysis in order to enjoy a better quality of life. </span></span></span></span></span><br> &nbsp;</div> <span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="direction:rtl"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span sans-serif="" style="font-family:Calibri,"><span dir="LTR" style="font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> Hemodialysis, Peritoneal dialysis, Health-related quality of life, End Stage Renal Diseases, The Short Form Health survey (SF-36) 196 207 http://jabs.fums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-3081-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Azam Namdar اعظم نامدار hila421@yahoo.com 2571667981 100319475328460028043 No Department of Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran گروه پزشکی اجتماعی، دانشکده پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی فسا، فسا، ایران Mohammad Mehdi Naghizadeh محمدمهدی نقی زاده mmnaghi2@yahoo.com 100319475328460028044 100319475328460028044 No Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Fasa University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Iran مرکز تحقیقات بیماری‌های غیرواگیر، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی فسا، فسا، ایران Fatemeh Namdar فاطمه نامدار fatemeh_3310@yahoo.com 100319475328460028045 100319475328460028045 No Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran گروه انگل شناسی و قارچ شناسی، دانشکده پزشکی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران Samiyeh Alizadeh سامیه علیزاده samiehalizadeh0@gmail.com 100319475328460028046 100319475328460028046 No Pars Advanced and Minimally Invasive Medical Manners Research Center, Pars Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran مرکز تحقیقات آداب پزشکی پیشرفته و کم تهاجمی پارس، بیمارستان پارس، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران، تهران، ایران Ali Montazeri علی منتظری montazeri@acecr.ac.ir 100319475328460028047 100319475328460028047 Yes Population Health Research Group, Health Metrics Research Center, Institute for Health Sciences Research, ACECR, Tehran, Iran گروه تحقیقات سلامت جمعیت، مرکز تحقیقات معیارهای سلامت، پژوهشکده علوم بهداشتی، تهران، ایران