PAIN CHARACTERISTICS ON PATIENT UNDERTAKING HEMODIALYSIS

Background : Research in pain especially in patient undertake hemodialysis is important to be conducted in order to help this population in the process of their hemodialysis therapy. Aim: The aim this study is to identify pain characteristic on hemodialysis patient using Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and mnemonic PQRST. Method: This is a descriptive quantitative cross-sectional research. The number of respondent were 72 and they routinely undertake hemodialysis therapy twice a week. Research was conducted in one Central Hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on February to March 2017. Univariate analysis was used to describe respondents’s pain characteristic. Results: The majority of respondents (51.39%) experience moderate pain, following by mild pain (33.33%) and severe pain (15.28%). In Provocation aspect the most characteristic was movement (87.50%), for the Quality characteristic the most aspect was knife-like pain (83.33%). Moreover, in Regio characteristic was on hand (84.72%), No Radiation of pain (91.67%), and for Time characteristic was intermitten (97.22%). As many as 53% respondents expressed that pain have an impact on their life. Consequences of pain most was in their activities (52.63%), following with others (15.79%.), nausea/vomiting (15.79%), sleep disturbance and appetite (both 13.16%). However, pain did not have an impact on their emotion. Conclusion: Respondents experience mostly moderate pain. The percentage of characteristics on PQRST mnenomic each percentage of Provocation, Quality, Regio, Radiation and Time reach was above 80% of respondents, while for Severity more than half of the respondent experienced moderate pain. The majority of respondents felt the impact of pain in their life.