title: Family caregiver's experiences of providing care to patients with End-Stage Renal Disease in South-West Nigeria.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the experiences of family caregivers providing care for patients living with End-Stage Renal Disease in Nigeria BACKGROUND: Family caregiving is where an unpaid volunteer, usually a close family member, attends to the needs of a loved one with a chronic, disabling illness within the home. Much research has been conducted in the area of family caregiving in high-income countries. However, the same cannot be said for many of the low-resource, multicultural African countries.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative descriptive study.
  
  
  METHODS
  This qualitative descriptive study used manifest content analysis to analyse data from semi-structured, individual interviews, with 15 purposively selected family caregivers. Two tertiary institutions providing renal care in South-Western Nigeria: the research setting for this study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Five categories were identified, and these included disconnectedness with self and others, never-ending burden, 'a fool being tossed around', obligation to care and promoting a closer relationship.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Experiences associated with the caregiving of patients diagnosed with End-Stage Renal Disease evoked a number of emotions from the family caregivers, and the study revealed that caregiving imposed some burdens that are specific to low-resource countries on participants.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses need to engage family caregivers on disease-specific teachings that might promote understanding of the disease process and role expectation. Family caregivers may benefit from social support services.
authors.affiliation: University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
authors.forename: Yemisi Okikiade
authors.initials: YO
authors.lastname: Oyegbile
authors.affiliation: University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Brysiewicz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017028:Caregivers / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D003906:Developing Countries; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000451:nursing*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009549:Nigeria; D024802:Nurse's Role; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011788:Quality of Life; D012944:Social Support; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: End-Stage Renal Disease; caregiver burden; experiences; family caregivers