Understanding Adults With Chronic Kidney Disease and Their Caregivers' Self-Management Experiences: A Qualitative Study Using the Theoretical Domains Framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Self-management support interventions are widely accepted in chronic kidney disease (CKD) care; however, interventions rarely consider individual behaviors by incorporating a behavioral theoretical framework. The Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) can be used to facilitate an understanding of patients and their caregivers' behaviors to successfully self-manage CKD.

Objectives

(1) To understand behaviors of patients with CKD and their caregivers and identify potential intervention approaches to support CKD self-management and (2) to explore relationships between the 14 TDF domains and CKD self-management.

Design

Qualitative descriptive study using both content and thematic analysis.

Setting

Purposive criterion was used to recruit participants from ac

SUBMITTER: Baay S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6535912 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature