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- Title
TRAJECTORY OF LIFE OF KIDNEY TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS: SEIZING THE CHANGES IN THE LIVES OF PATIENTS.
- Authors
Albino Simpson, Clélia; de Souza Silva, Fernando
- Abstract
The present study aimed to apprehend the changes occurred in the life of kidney transplanted patients, from the diagnosis of chronic renal failure to the coexistence with the transplant. This is a study with qualitative approach, exploratory and descriptive, having the oral history as a technique. The network consists of the first nine kidney transplant patients from Rio Grande do Norte, assisted in an outpatient clinic of Nephrology of a university hospital in Natal- Rio Grande do Norte. Through the content analysis of Bardin were found three themes: Impact on social relations, impact on social status and behavior against disease and treatment. We conclude that major changes in the lives of kidney transplant patients appear as losses in social relationships, work, income and leisure, however, stigma and prejudice characterized as important factors for social exclusion, however, the acceptance of the pathological condition was strengthened, especially by family support and belief in the Divine.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; CHRONIC kidney failure; ACADEMIC medical centers; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; CONTENT analysis; OUTPATIENT services in hospitals; INCOME; INTERPERSONAL relations; INTERVIEWING; KIDNEY diseases; KIDNEY transplantation; LIFE change events; RESEARCH methodology; PATIENT-professional relations; NURSING; PREJUDICES; QUALITY of life; RELIGION; RESEARCH; SOCIAL stigma; THERAPEUTICS; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; QUALITATIVE research; NARRATIVES; EDUCATIONAL attainment; THEMATIC analysis; SURGERY
- Publication
Ciencia, Cuidado e Saude, 2013, Vol 12, Issue 3, p469
- ISSN
1677-3861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v12i3.20838