Patient's response to a simple question on recovery after hemodialysis session strongly associated with scores of comprehensive tools for quality of life and depression symptoms.

Purpose: Many maintenance hemodialysis patients do not feel well after the hemodialysis session and need a time to recover. The main objective of the study was to investigate whether a simple question about the need of some time to recover from hemodialysis was associated with scores of comprehensive tools of depression symptoms and health-related quality of life (HRQOL).

Methods: Cross-sectional evaluation of 800 Brazilian patients enrolled in the Prospective Study of the Prognosis of Chronic Hemodialysis Patients (PROHEMO).