Effects of Ānāpānassati Kammaṭṭhāna in Hemodialysis Patients
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This research article contains the main objectives: to study the effects of Ānāpānassati Kammaṭṭhāna in hemodialysis patients on the dementia, on the quality of life and on the depression and the secondary objectives were to study the blood results and vital signs when the hemodialysis patients had performed Ānāpānassati Kammaṭṭhāna. This research is quasi experimental research. Researcher included 36 thrice-weekly hemodialysis patients and assigned them to do 35 minutes of chanting and Ānāpānassati Kammaṭṭhāna in every hemodialysis session for 12 weeks at K.P.S. Medical Clinic, Specialized Kidney Disease, Bangkok. Data Analysis: Researcher analysed the dementia by Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), quality of life by SF-36, depression by Thai Depression Inventory Score (TDI) and analysed blood waste product (BUN) and vital signs average of the experimental hemodialysis patients. Inferential Statistics were used in finding out the mean and the standard deviation, statistical significance analysis using t-test. The results of this research according to the main objectives and secondary objectives 1. The result of the study of the dementia, the quality of life and the depression of the experimental hemodialysis patients had all the significantly improved. 2. The result of the study of the blood waste product (BUN) and the respiratory rate of the experimental hemodialysis patients had all the significantly improved.
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