Table 3.
Effects of the 12-week home-based exercise program on health-related quality of life scores (results of the paired t-test and 12-week ANCOVA).
| Usual care (n = 23) | P-valuea | Exercise (n = 24) | P-valuea | P for interactionb | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | Final | Baseline | Final | ||||
| KDQOL | |||||||
| Symptoms/problems | 77.4 ± 14.3 | 78.7 ± 15.2 | 0.60 | 78.2 ± 11.5 | 79.5 ± 11.4 | 0.54 | 0.90 |
| Effects of kidney disease | 77.6 ± 14.4 | 78.1 ± 15.6 | 0.83 | 76.1 ± 15.0 | 79.8 ± 14.3 | 0.04 | 0.22 |
| Burden of kidney disease | 47.0 ± 20.1 | 42.4 ± 19.2 | 0.09 | 40.6 ± 22.6 | 48.1 ± 21.7 | 0.17 | 0.11 |
| Cognitive function | 92.4 ± 9.1 | 92.4 ± 9.5 | 0.90 | 90.3 ± 11.1 | 90.3 ± 10.7 | 0.9 | 0.75 |
| Quality of social interaction | 92.3 ± 11.2 | 88.1 ± 14.9 | 0.14 | 85.1 ± 15.8 | 88.4 ± 10.6 | 0.21 | 0.24 |
| Sleep | 65.0 ± 16.7 | 60.9 ± 18.1 | 0.17 | 57.4 ± 18.2 | 56.6 ± 16.7 | 0.82 | 0.90 |
| Social support | 85.5 ± 18.3 | 81.0 ± 16.9 | 0.18 | 75.0 ± 22.0 | 80.7 ± 18.7 | 0.36 | 0.76 |
| Dialysis staff encouragement | 79.6 ± 24.4 | 83.0 ± 17.4 | 0.51 | 84.5 ± 14.2 | 80.6 ± 21.7 | 0.48 | 0.50 |
| Patient satisfaction | 81.7 ± 15.7 | 78.0 ± 22.8 | 0.56 | 79.2 ± 17.2 | 75.2 ± 17.6 | 0.43 | 0.82 |
| KDCS | 75.8 ± 10.7 | 72.5 ± 10.0 | 0.05 | 72.4 ± 9.0 | 74.3 ± 10.2 | 0.15 | 0.03 |
| SF-36 | |||||||
| Physical functioning | 77.4 ± 14.4 | 73.2 ± 13.9 | 0.13 | 73.3 ± 22.3 | 76.0 ± 15.7 | 0.43 | 0.15 |
| Physical role functioning | 73.4 ± 23.3 | 62.2 ± 26.9 | 0.04 | 64.6 ± 23.6 | 71.9 ± 22.0 | 0.06 | 0.01 |
| Bodily pain | 77.7 ± 22.5 | 67.5 ± 24.4 | 0.05 | 65.2 ± 24.2 | 73.0 ± 19.1 | 0.1 | 0.06 |
| General health | 48.0 ± 15.8 | 45.7 ± 17.4 | 0.42 | 43.0 ± 19.1 | 43.7 ± 17.9 | 0.42 | 0.61 |
| Vitality | 57.9 ± 21.0 | 54.8 ± 20.3 | 0.43 | 51.6 ± 21.6 | 57.5 ± 20.3 | <0.05 | 0.12 |
| Social functioning | 80.4 ± 24.1 | 74.3 ± 26.0 | 0.21 | 59.9 ± 27.6 | 71.8 ± 19.6 | 0.06 | 0.47 |
| Emotional role functioning | 81.9 ± 22.0 | 64.3 ± 31.8 | 0.02 | 73.6 ± 21.1 | 77.5 ± 19.4 | 0.4 | <0.01 |
| Mental health | 73.7 ± 19.4 | 73.2 ± 17.6 | 0.88 | 69.2 ± 17.4 | 71.5 ± 18.8 | 0.38 | 0.74 |
| PCS | 41.3 ± 9.7 | 38.2 ± 9.2 | 1.00 | 40.1 ± 14.9 | 41.0 ± 8.1 | 0.71 | 0.12 |
| MCS | 51.2 ± 9.3 | 52.6 ± 9.0 | 0.50 | 48.7 ± 8.8 | 49.8 ± 9.6 | 0.42 | 0.57 |
| RCS | 47.8 ± 12.4 | 40.6 ± 15.4 | 0.01 | 41.0 ± 11.6 | 45.3 ± 11.1 | 0.06 | <0.01 |
Abbreviations: KDQOL, Kidney Disease Quality of Life; SF-36, Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey MOS; KDCS, kidney disease component summary; PCS, physical component summary; MCS, mental component summary; RCS, role/social component summary.
aComparison between the baseline and final values.
bComparison of the final values (values according to the final model with the baseline values as covariates).