Quality of life dialysis and transplanted patients

End-stage renal disease (ESRD) is a chronic illness, which significantly in:fluences patienť s life. Two widespread possibilities of renul replaccmcnt therapy are dialysis and kidney transplantation. The first section of a theoretical part summarizes medical aspects of ESRD. The second section deals with psychosocial aspects of chronic illness generally, which are replenished with a particularity of dialysis and transplantation. The last section hands in theoretical constructs of quality of life and sumarizes results of foreign studies, which have dealt with Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of dialysed and transplanted patients. Empirical part of the thesis maps HRQoL in relation to some selected factors (gender, marital status, age, level of education and period of treatment) in group of dialysed and transplanted patients. The main goal of the whole thesis is comparing HRQoL among dialysed and transplanted patients measured by SF-36 and WHOQoLBREF questionnaires