Anxiety and Depression in Patients Hospitalized With Chronic Kidney Disease in Barranquilla Clinics, Colombia
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2018-10
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Sierra Llamas, Carmen A.
Donado Castillo, Rafael E.
Aroca, Gustavo
Depine, Santos Ángel
Gaviria, Gladys
Martínez, Álvaro
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Canadian Center of Science and Education
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The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of anxiety and depression in patients aged between 18 and 70
years, hospitalized with chronic kidney disease in a clinic entity of the city of Barranquilla.
The type of research is descriptive, presenting the information through the indicators and statistical tables, the
Hospital Scale of Anxiety and Depression of, Zigmond & Smith (1983), which evaluates the detection of
depressive and anxious disorders in the non-psychiatric hospital context. The application of the Scale was
performed in the hospital entity of the city of Barranquilla to 50 patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. The results
they are beneficial in the short term, because they create new research proposals applied to another population
group diagnosed with chronic diseases, especially for the evaluation and intervention in the area of health
psychology. In the long term, new theories, methods of intervention and evaluation applied to the population of
patients with chronic kidney disease will be studied. In the same way, the results show marked trends related to
depression, an aspect that is consistent with the deterioration that affects the individual in the course of the disease
and also show a positive correlation of the study variables, depression and anxiety disorders in patients with CKD
can be due to a symptomatology or consequence of psychological burnout.
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Anxiety, Depression, Chronic kidney disease, Hospitalization