ArticleJournal of caring sciences2016
Psychological Reactions among Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B: a Qualitative Study.
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- Common concerns, barriers to care, and the lived experience of individuals with hepatitis B: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2021Article
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- The Impact of Virologic Parameters and Liver Fibrosis on Health-Related Quality of Life in Black African Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B: Results from a High Endemic Area.Clinical and experimental gastroenterology · 2020Article
- Impact of Stigma on People Living with Chronic Hepatitis B.Patient related outcome measures · 2020Article
- Social Determinants of Stigma and Discrimination in Vietnamese Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Socioeconomic Vulnerability to Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
introductionHepatitis B is the most prevalent type of viral hepatitis. Psychological reactions among patients with hepatitis B infection is considerably different and affects their decision about treating and following up the disease. The present study aims at explaining the psychological demonstrations experienced by these patients.
methodsIn this qualitative study, a total of 18 patients with hepatitis B (8 women and 10 men) were selected by purposive sampling method. Data were collected by unstructured in-depth interviews during 2014-2015 in the medical centers of three cities in Iran. All interviews were recorded, typed and analyzed by the conventional content analysis approach.
resultsBy analyzing the data, the main theme including psychological instability, with three sub-themes were emerged: grief reaction (stupor, denial, anger and aggression), emotional challenges (worry and apprehension, contradiction with beliefs, fear of deprivation, fear of stigma, waiting for death and prognosis ambiguity) and inferiority complex (social withdrawal, sense of humiliation and embarrassment and sense of guilt and blame) were acquired.
conclusionThe findings indicate that patients with hepatitis B experience various psychological reactions that need to be controlled and managed by themselves or healthcare providers. Thus, implementation of health interventions with emphasis on psychological care to prevent problems and execution of educational and consultation programs about hepatitis especially by medical centers and mass media is seems necessary.
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