title: The experience of living on dialysis: a literature review.
abstract: This article reviews eight qualitative studies from the literature seeking to understand of the experience of people living on dialysis. Discussion of this group of papers suggests that the renal client experience can be comprehensively interpreted as a response to renal illness and therapy within the specialized health care context of renal replacement therapy. From a better understanding of the experience of people living on dialysis, health professionals can more adequately support them so they can live as fully as possible.
authors.affiliation: Capital and Coast Health Ltd., Wellington, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Polaschek
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001294:Attitude to Health; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D010044:Outpatient Clinics, Hospital; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011788:Quality of Life; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000451:nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept; D012938:Social Perception