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A RESEARCH STUDY ON A CROSS-LAGGED, CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN QUALITY OF LIFE AND DEPRESSION

Dr. Beenish Safdar, Dr. Naziya Hassan, Dr. Sohail Raheem

Objective: This 3-wave longitudinal study was conducted over 1.5 years to explain the episodes of depression in renal transplant recipients and its effect on the Quality of Life. Materials and Methods: The study population consisted of renal transplant recipients who had renal transplant surgery in a public hospital of Lahore. The average age of recipients was 34.40 years (age ranging from 19 to 53 years). Those recipients had a post-transplant period extending from 1 year to 12 years (M = 3.4, SD = 2.3). All of the renal transplant recipients underwent standard renal transplant surgery. Quality of Life was measured by means of QoL Index-Kidney Transplant Version. In addition depression was measured via Beck Depression Inventory-II Scale. Results: The results showed a substantial association between depression and Quality of Life, signifying that transplant recipients had multiple depression episodes and expressed less gratification in their lives. Conclusion: The linear regression displayed that depression and Quality of Life are mutually related to one another. The absence of a connecting course between despair and Quality of Life shows them as individual concepts that require more research to prove any association between them. Keywords: Depression, QoL, (RTRs), longitudinal research, cross-lagged association.

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