-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.