Introduction:

Kidney pathology can generate a change in people's lives, since it forces us to change life styles and projects, facilitating physical, psychological and social conditions.

Objective:

To determine the factors associated with anxiety in patients with chronic kidney disease treated in two dialysis units of the department of Boyacá.

Materials and methods:

An analytical cross-sectional study was conducted, which included patients with chronic kidney disease in advanced stages who were managed with dialysis therapy. We included 224 patients over 18 years of age who accepted the informed consent for voluntary participation, selected by simple random sampling.

Results:

The prevalence of anxiety was 41.33 %, where it was found that having a partner, family support (0.42), being employed (0.56) and good care by health personnel (0.69) are protective factors for anxiety, while having more than 2 years on dialysis (2.73), hemodialysis (2.92), having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (3.19), suffering from diabetes mellitus (3.23), Family history of chronic kidney disease (3.58), being a woman (4.46) and being older than 50 years (4.73) are factors that increase the likelihood of anxiety.

Conclusions:

the factors associated with anxiety in our study in patients with chronic kidney disease are congruent with the majority of studies carried out in this regard. Given the significant prevalence of anxiety in patients with chronic kidney disease, it is important to implement psychotherapeutic strategies in these patients with emphasis on the population with a higher risk of developing it.

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