Abstract :
This study's primary goal was to ascertain how married male and female patients with renal failure perceived their illness, fear about dying, and sleep quality. Additionally, it investigates the connection between renal failure patients' perceptions of their condition, fear about dying, and sleep quality. Additional research comparing the perceptions of sickness, fear about dying, and sleep quality among individuals with renal failure according on gender, SES, and educational attainment. In this study, correlational and quantitative comparative research designs were employed. Purposive sampling was employed, and a total of 120 patients with renal failure—60 married men and 60 married women—were gathered from DHQ hospitals in Faisalabad and Jhang division. The study's variables were measured using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, the Death Anxiety Scale, and the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire. SPSS was used to statistically examine the data. Data analysis was done using a correlation matrix and an ANOVA. By adjusting for variables including age, gender, education, socioeconomic status, and length of sickness, multivariable logistic regression is used to evaluate the relationship between disease perceptions, sleep quality and death anxiety. Depending on the type of variable, several statistical tests were used to analyze the hypothesis. The Pearson correlation test was used to evaluate the hypothesis, and the findings were confirmed. The findings demonstrated a strong negative correlation between disease perception and death anxiety, as well as a favorable correlation between illness perception and sleep quality. However, there is a strong negative correlation between death anxiety and sleep quality. The findings indicated that men had comparatively higher levels of sickness perception, death anxiety, and sleep quality than women. The findings also demonstrated that perceptions of disease, fear about dying, and sleep quality were comparatively lower in low SES than in medium SES and high SES, and higher in under metric than in intermediate and bachelor.