[Family support and quality of life among hemodialysis patients].

Sixty chronic renal failure patients who had received hemodialysis for 3 months or longer were interviewed with the Quality of Life Questionnaire and Social Support from Family Scale. The results were that the hemodialysis patients had a lower of quality of life and there was a positive correlation between family support and the patients' quality of life. The results suggest that both the patients' condition and their family background should be estimated so as to improve the quality of life of the chronic renal failure patients who had been received hemodialysis.