Introduction:

Patients with chronic kidney failure experience several physical, psychological, social and/or spiritual changes. In addition, they suffer from emotional disturbances caused by the disease itself or by hemodialysis treatment; the objective was to determine the level of emotional state of patients on hemodialysis.

Materials and methods:

A quantitative and descriptive approach was used with a non-experimental, cross-sectional design in the hemodialysis service of Hospital Obrero N°2, Caja Nacional de Salud. The variables used are the influencing factors: gender, age, marital status, employment status and duration of hemodialysis treatment. The instruments used were the hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) and the Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC).

Results:

A total of 110 patients participated in this study; The factors that influence patients' emotional state are gender (female), age, marital status (married), employment status (unemployment), and length of hemodialysis treatment. According to the HADS scale, 53,6% of patients suffer from severe anxiety, 39,1% from mild anxiety, and 7,3% from normal anxiety. Regarding depression, 52,7% suffer from severe depression, 42,7% from mild depression, and 4,5% from normal depression. A large proportion of patients show low levels of resilience, with 95,5%.

Discussion:

This study identified alterations in emotional state in patients receiving hemodialysis treatment. All patients suffer from anxiety and depression, as well as a low level of resilience.