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Dedication in Caring of Hemodialysis Patients: Perspectives and Experiences of Iranian Family Caregivers

BACKGROUND: Although dialysis treatment is considered as a life-saving treatment for chronic renal failure patients, the caregivers face challenges in caretaking of these patients. OBJECTIVES: This study is aimed to explain the perspectives and experiences among caregivers of the patients undergoing...

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Autores principales: Eslami, Ahmad Ali, Rabiei, Leili, Shirani, Majid, Masoudi, Reza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6199822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30410262
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_204_17
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author Eslami, Ahmad Ali
Rabiei, Leili
Shirani, Majid
Masoudi, Reza
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description BACKGROUND: Although dialysis treatment is considered as a life-saving treatment for chronic renal failure patients, the caregivers face challenges in caretaking of these patients. OBJECTIVES: This study is aimed to explain the perspectives and experiences among caregivers of the patients undergoing hemodialysis in Iran. METHODS: A qualitative design, based on a thematic analysis approach, was used to reach the study aim. In this study, 25 hemodialysis family caregivers were selected by purposeful sampling. The data were gathered through in-depth and unstructured interview and field observation and analyzed by the inductive thematic approach. RESULTS: The three main themes were generated from the analysis of the data indicating that the caregivers face challenges such as heavy burden of care, tension in care, and emotional exhaustion. CONCLUSION: Caretaking of the hemodialysis patients is constantly accompanied with challenges and concerns regarding the effective care for patients. Health-care providers need to address these concerns based on both patient- and caregiver-focused approaches, rather than only patient focused, to the design and planning for helping the patients and their caregivers.
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spelling pubmed-61998222018-11-08 Dedication in Caring of Hemodialysis Patients: Perspectives and Experiences of Iranian Family Caregivers Eslami, Ahmad Ali Rabiei, Leili Shirani, Majid Masoudi, Reza Indian J Palliat Care Original Article BACKGROUND: Although dialysis treatment is considered as a life-saving treatment for chronic renal failure patients, the caregivers face challenges in caretaking of these patients. OBJECTIVES: This study is aimed to explain the perspectives and experiences among caregivers of the patients undergoing hemodialysis in Iran. METHODS: A qualitative design, based on a thematic analysis approach, was used to reach the study aim. In this study, 25 hemodialysis family caregivers were selected by purposeful sampling. The data were gathered through in-depth and unstructured interview and field observation and analyzed by the inductive thematic approach. RESULTS: The three main themes were generated from the analysis of the data indicating that the caregivers face challenges such as heavy burden of care, tension in care, and emotional exhaustion. CONCLUSION: Caretaking of the hemodialysis patients is constantly accompanied with challenges and concerns regarding the effective care for patients. Health-care providers need to address these concerns based on both patient- and caregiver-focused approaches, rather than only patient focused, to the design and planning for helping the patients and their caregivers. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6199822/ /pubmed/30410262 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_204_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Shirani, Majid
Masoudi, Reza
Dedication in Caring of Hemodialysis Patients: Perspectives and Experiences of Iranian Family Caregivers
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title_full_unstemmed Dedication in Caring of Hemodialysis Patients: Perspectives and Experiences of Iranian Family Caregivers
title_short Dedication in Caring of Hemodialysis Patients: Perspectives and Experiences of Iranian Family Caregivers
title_sort dedication in caring of hemodialysis patients: perspectives and experiences of iranian family caregivers
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6199822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30410262
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_204_17
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