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Development and preliminary psychometric evaluation of the hemodialysis patient care dependency scale (HD-CDS).

Key takeaways

Researchers built a new questionnaire to measure how much help people on hemodialysis (blood-cleaning treatment by machine) need with daily care. Until now, the questionnaires used for this were mainly made for stroke patients. This paper reports early testing of whether the new questionnaire is reliable. It is a measuring tool for care teams, not a treatment, and it does not show that anyone's health improves.

Who did this work

Liang C (Blood Purification Center, The First People's Hospital of Changzhou, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.) · Niu H (Blood Purification Center, The First People's Hospital of Changzhou, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.) · Xue L (Blood Purification Center, The First People's Hospital of Changzhou, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China.)

Source

Paper · Europe PMC, CKD · 2026-09-15
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0358118