Structural and Psychosocial Challenges Among Underserved Patients Receiving Hemodialysis During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale & objective

Racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States are disproportionately affected by chronic kidney disease and progressive kidney failure and face significantly more socioeconomic and psychosocial challenges. However, how such patients' social environment and stigmatization shape their illness experiences and abilities to cope before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has not been well documented, even as social scientific research predicts these groups' exponential vulnerability.

Study design

Qualitative study using semistructured interviews to elicit individual patient narratives about their personal illness experiences before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, any challenges they faced, and their sources of support.

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SUBMITTER: Shohet M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10561110 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature