@article{Afifah_Nurjannah_Sunaryo_2018, title={PAIN CHARACTERISTICS ON PATIENT UNDERTAKING HEMODIALYSIS}, volume={4}, url={https://www.belitungraya.org/BRP/index.php/bnj/article/view/337}, DOI={10.33546/bnj.337}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Background: </strong>Research in pain especially in patients undertaking hemodialysis is important to be conducted in order to help the process of their hemodialysis therapy.</p> <p><strong>Aim: </strong>The aim this study was to describe pain characteristic on hemodialysis patient using Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and mnemonic PQRST (Provocation, Quality, Regio, Radiation and Time).</p> <p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a descriptive quantitative cross-sectional research. The number of respondents were 72 and they routinely undertook hemodialysis therapy twice a week. The study was conducted in one central hospital in Yogyakarta Indonesia on February to March 2017. Univariate analysis was used to describe respondents’ pain characteristic.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> The majority of respondents (51.39%) experienced moderate pain, followed by mild pain (33.33%) and severe pain (15.28%). The most painful characteristic in the provocation aspect was movement (87.50%), and the quality of pain was knife-like pain (83.33%). Moreover, hand was the major area of pain (84.72%), and there was no radiation of pain (91.67%). Most of pain was intermittent (97.22%). Of 53% of respondents expressed that the pain had an impact on their lives, specifically in their activities (52.63%), followed by others (15.79%), nausea/vomiting (15.79%), sleep disturbance (13.16%), and appetite (13.16%). However, the pain did not have an impact on their emotion.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The respondents experienced mostly moderate pain. The percentage of pain characteristics on PQRST mnemonic was above 80%, and more than half of the respondents experienced moderate pain. Majority of the respondents felt the impacts of the pain in their lives.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Belitung Nursing Journal}, author={Afifah, Fatin Hapsah and Nurjannah, Intansari and Sunaryo, Ery Yanuar Akhmad Budi}, year={2018}, month={May}, pages={123–127} }