Vitamin D and Psychological Status in Dialysis Patient

Abstract

Objective: The study was conducted to determine the association between vitamin D level and psychological status in dialyzed patients.Methods: The population consisted of dialysis patients in a university hospital dialysis center in Eastern Turkey between March and May 2017. The study's sample involved in 90 dialysis patients (59 hemodialysis, 31 continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis). 25(OH) D levels measured in a university hospital. Psychological status was evaluated by Brief Symptom Invantory. Minimum-maximum values, percentage, mean and standard deviation, average, frequency, Kruskal–Walli’s test and Pearson's Correlation Analysis were used to evaluate the data.Results: Mean age was 53.74±14.83 years, 61.6% of patients were female, 38.4% of patients were male. Mean Vitamin D was 23.51±29.50 ng/mL. The vitamin D levels of 72.2% of the patients were below 30ng/mL. There was statistically significant negative correlation between vitamin D and somatization, obsessive compulsive disorder, interpersonal sensivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobia, paranoid thought, psychotization, other and total scores. Patients who low vitamin D level has had high scores of psychological statuses.Conclusion: Vitamin D level has effect on psychological status in participants. Vitamin D is essential for psychological wellness in dialysis patients. While clinicians will assess, and therapy of these patient’s psychological status should take into account patients’s vitamin D status