Objective: to assess the pain and the differences of this assessment with social, economic and clinical variables in individuals with chronic kidney disease. Methods: cross- -sectional study, with 90 patients with hemodialysis clinics. Three instruments were used clinical/sociodemographic, visual analogue pain scale and McGill pain questionnaire. Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis U tests were used. Results: the m...
Chronic Kidney Disease is characterized as an irreversible syndrome, which causes slow and progressive loss of renal function. The damages caused by this disease are accompanied by health implications, resulting in compromise of the quality of life and discomfort, since chronic renal patients need some kind of Substutive Renal Therapy, such as hemodialysis the one of the most used therapies. Thus, this study ai...