Expectativas do paciente renal crônico frente à espera do transplante / Kidney Patients Expectations While waiting for a Transplant

AUTOR(ES)

Nilza Tavares Honorato de Oliveira

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The aim of this study was to look at the relationship between health teams and the patient with chronic kidney failure. Working with chronically sick patients often represents a heavy mental burden for health workers who have to handle existencial issues such as pain, suffering , and death as well as professional issues like frustation and helplessness in face of the disease. Patients also sustain a psychic burden once CKF is a condition that involves coping with pain, suffering, and sometimes death, which are issues that generate anxiety and stress.On the other hand, the disease can be regarded as an opportunity for personal growth both for the patient and the workers assisting them. Therefore, the goal of this study was to investigate CKF patientsperceptions and expectations while waiting for a transplant. Promoting optimal personal growth and sharing in patient/health worker relationship as well as valueing work as a source satisfaction and pleasure can lead to self-realization, regarding disease as a way to foster the patients growth Therefore, a qualitative study making use of interviews and a questionnaire was conducted. Such format allowed for suggesting measures that could improve the quality of working conditions and life both for patients and health workers. Some suggestions emmerged as a result of this study, such as enabling the patients to make their choices; raising public awareness by discussing the importance of organ donation in order to reduce the number of prospective recipients and actions to provide social support to them; requiring that Medical Schools include subjects that will discuss chronic diseases. Finally, patients should be able to receive thorough assistance targeting their physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and economic dimensions.

ASSUNTO(S)

saúde mental expectations expectativas enfrentamento coping mental health transplante renal kidney transplant

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