-Participants in the Greene (2005) study were drawn from a convenience sample of African American patients on dialysis in Washington, DC.
-The sample was sub grouped according to age into 4 categories: 26 to 45 years (n=23); 46 to 55 years (n=23); 56 to 65 years (n=28); and 66 and older (n=24). Participants were interviewed using Ferrans & Powers Quality of Life Index of Dialysis Version III. Five quality of life subscales were analyzed using age as the research variable: health and functioning, social and economic, psychological and spiritual, family and total quality of life. Greene (2005) found that the quality of life of African Americans with ESRD increased as they aged for all subscales except psychological and spiritual. The results suggested that younger patients with ESRD had a lower perception of quality of life than the older individuals.