Assessment of relationship between self-care and fatigue and loneliness in haemodialysis patients.

Aims And Objectives: To assess the level of fatigue, self-care abilities and level of loneliness in Turkish haemodialysis patients and to determine the relationship between the level of fatigue, self-care and loneliness.

Background: Dialysis patients experience difficulties such as deterioration in physical performance and self-care abilities, fatigue and social isolation due to the disease and the treatment.

Design: This is a descriptive study and was conducted at two dialysis treatment centres.