Illness Beliefs in End Stage Renal Disease and Associations with Self-Care Modality Choice.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interest in self-care haemodialysis (HD) has increased because it improves patients'clinical and quality-of-life outcomes. Patients who undertake self-management for haemodialysis may hold illness beliefs differently to those choosing institutional care at the time of making the modality choice or moulded by their illness and dialysis treatment experience. Illness perceptions amongst predialysis patients and in those undertaking fully-assisted and self-care haemodialysis are being investigated in a combined cross-sectional and longitudinal study.

Study design

The study data are derived from the BASIC-HHD study, a multicentre observational study on factors influencing home haemodialysis uptake. 535 patients were enrolled into three groups: Predialysis CKD-5 group,

SUBMITTER: Jayanti A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4930164 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature