Haemodialysing at home: the client experience of self-treatment.
This paper reports a study that sought to describe the experience of people using home haemodialysis as their modality of renal replacement therapy. The study employed a critical interpretive methodology. After developing a framework for the research, a small group of renal clients who haemodialyse themselves in their own homes were intensively interviewed. This study describing the renal client perspective indicates that, although more demanding for them than in-centre treatment, self-treatment at home can enable a superior quality of life for many people living on dialysis.
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Renal Services, Capital and Coast Health District Health Board, Newtown, Wellington, New Zealand. Polaschek@paradise.net.nz
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D017281:Cost of Illness; D006437:Hemodialysis, Home / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009520:New Zealand; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011788:Quality of Life; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology*; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D035501:Uncertainty