Relationship among symptoms, quality of life, and complementary and alternative medicines use among patients undergoing hemodialysis in French-speaking Switzerland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic renal disease is considered a main public health problem due to its high prevalence in the population. The solution of choice currently available is kidney transplantation but when this option is not available, blood purification treatments, notably haemodialysis (HD), are necessary. The presence of chronic renal disease combined with this demanding medical procedure leads to a hard symptomatology. To face this situation, HD patients often resort to complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) as they perceive that the healthcare professionals aren't paying enough attention to their quality of life. Given this background, we aim to describe the prevalence and the type of the CAM used among HD patients and their possible relations with patients' symptomatology an

SUBMITTER: Kemnitz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10230675 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature