Abstract:
Objective To construct a random forest prediction model based on clinical features of uremic patients, and assess its value in predicting anxiety among maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients.
Methods A total of 162 uremic patients treated with MHD in the Blood Purification Center of Bozhou People's Hospital from February 2023 to August 2024 were selected as the research subjects. According to the score of the Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-14), the patients were divided into the anxiety group (41 cases) and the non-anxiety group (121 cases). The baseline data and clinical characteristics were compared between two groups; Binary logistic regression was used to analyze the influencing factors of anxiety in patients, and the R (R4.1.0) software package and randomForest program package were applied to construct the random forest model. The receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was drawn to analyze the risk factors of the random forest model for predicting anxiety in uremic patients after MHD treatment.
Results The HADS-A score of uremic patients after MHD treatment was (5.46 ± 2.68) points. The proportions of body mass index (BMI) < 18.50 kg/cm2, skin pruritus, hemoglobin (Hb) < 90 g/L, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) score ≥11 in the anxiety group were higher than those in non-anxiety group (P < 0.01). The results of multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that the BMI < 18.50 kg/cm2, pruritus, Hb < 90 g/L, and PSQI score ≥11 points were the risk factors of anxiety in uremic patients after MHD treatment (OR = 3.654, 3.147, 5.287, and 5.343) (P < 0.01). The %IncMse scoring was adopted,and the feature importance was ranked. Among them, the top three importance scores were Hb, PSQI score and BMI, respectively. The %IncMse × 10–2 were 23.781%, 22.881% and 22.084% respectively. The random forest model were P = 0.01 and R2 = 0.220. The AUC of the random forest model established based on BMI, pruritus, Hb and PSQI score for predicting anxiety in uremic patients after MHD treatment was 0.757, the sensitivity was 0.911, the specificity was 0.672, and the Youden index was 0.583, and which showed good predictive efficacy.
Conclusions The BMI, skin itching, Hb, and PSQI scores are the important influencing factors of anxiety in patients with uremia after MHD treatment. The decision tree model constructed based on these factors has high predictive value.