title: Nursing diagnoses and adaptation problems among chronic renal patients.
abstract: To identify similarities between NANDA International nursing diagnoses and Roy's adaptation model among chronic renal patients undergoing hemodialysis.
  
  
  
  Cross-sectional and descriptive study with 178 individuals selected, through consecutive convenience sampling, in a dialysis center located in the Northeast of Brazil. The study was conducted between October 2011 and February 2012. Data collection instruments included an interview form and a physical assessment.
  
  
  
  Similarity was found between 20 nursing diagnoses and 22 adaptation problems. Roy's adaptation modes that presented these relationships were: physiological, self-conception and role function.
  
  
  
  There are similarities between the two typologies. Furthermore, the use of the nursing process from the perspective of a theory inherent to the field supports care delivery and strengthens scientific knowledge in the profession.
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN).
authors.forename: Cecília Maria
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Farias de Queiroz Frazão
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Beatriz
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: de Almeida Medeiros
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria das Graças
authors.initials: Md
authors.lastname: Mariano Nunes de Paiva
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil, bertha@ufrnet.br.
authors.forename: Bertha
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cruz Enders
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Ceará, Ceará, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marcos Venícios
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: de Oliveira Lopes
authors.affiliation: Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Luisa
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Brandão de Carvalho Lira
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001938:Brazil; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000379:methods*; D051436:Renal Insufficiency, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy*; D055815:Young Adult