title: [Kidney transplanted patients: nursing diagnoses association analysis].
abstract: Chronic kidney inadequacy is a disease with serious physical, psychological and socioeconomic implications for the patient. The renal transplant provides life quality to chronic renal patients. The purpose of this study is to analyze associations among nursing diagnoses, related factors and defining characteristics present in renal transplanted patients of a university hospital. A descriptive, exploratory, cross sectional study was performed with 58 patients from December 2004 to April, 2005. Data collection instruments were: interview scripts and physical exams. Results showed associations between Sleep pattern disturbance and Sexual dysfunction, Sleep pattern disturbance and Altered sexuality pattern, Sexual dysfunction and Altered sexuality pattern. The study contributes for the identification of nursing diagnoses related to specific characteristics of these patients.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil. analira@ufrnet.br
authors.forename: Ana Luisa Brandão de Carvalho
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Lira
authors.forename: Marcos Venícios Oliveira
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: de Lopes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000451:nursing*; D008297:Male; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis