ArticleHealth psychology and behavioral medicine2021
Patients' experience one year after dialysis initiation: a lexicometric analysis.
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- Lived experiences of people with chronic kidney disease on maintenance dialysis: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies.BMC nephrology · 2025Pooled it
- Turkish validity and reliability study of dialysis-related stigma scale.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- "In their own words": delineating the contours of dyspnea invisibility in patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from quantitative discourse analysis.Respiratory research · 2024Article
- The mediating effect of personal mastery and perceived social support between emotional intelligence and social alienation among patients receiving peritoneal dialysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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- Australian Workshops on Patients' Perspectives on Hemodialysis and Incremental Start.Kidney international reports · 2023Article
- Stigma and related factors among renal dialysis patients in China.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Patient perspectives on chronic kidney disease and decision-making about treatment. Discourse of participants in the French CKD-REIN cohort study.Journal of nephrology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundDialysis implies huge changes in patients' lives. Yet, there is a need to better understand patients' experience in the time following dialysis initiation.
objectiveThe objective of this study was to investigate patients' experience of dialysis a year after treatment initiation and the associations between patients' discourse and their anxiety and depression symptoms.
methodsTwenty two patients (mean age 63.4; 68% men) took part in a semi-directed interview about their experience with dialysis. Participants completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Interviews were analyzed using a lexicometric analysis.
resultsThe analysis generated five classes: experience with nephrological care, facing loss and family relationships, family and acceptance, implementation of a new routine and making sense of the end-stage renal disease experience. Patients' felt very passive in their experience with care. They reported the importance of integrating dialysis in their lives and the role of family support when facing treatment initiation. Depressed patients were more likely to describe their nephrological monitoring very factually and to talk about what they lost with dialysis initiation.
conclusionDialysis initiation is a hard time for patients during which they face many challenges. This first year represents a time of adaptation, in which family seems essential.
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