Coping mechanism with anxiety levels in chronic kidney disease patients undergoing hemodialysis at Toto Kabila Hospital

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease is a progressive and irreversible renal disorder in which the body fails to maintain metabolism, balance, and electrolytes. Patients with such a disease should undergo regular hemodialysis therapy, leading to physical and psychological problems, i.e., anxiety. Inappropriately treated anxiety will cause the patients to not stick to the dietary pattern, hemodialysis, and infantilism. They need to strive to deal with their problems, known as a coping mechanism. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between coping mechanisms and anxiety levels of patients with chronic kidney disease that underwent hemodialysis at Toto Kabila Regional Public Hospital. It relied on a quantitative method with the cross-sectional approach. A total of 30 respondents were taken as the sample using the purposive sampling technique. Moreover, the Somers’D test with a questionnaire instrument was applied to analyze the data. It was shown that coping mechanisms correlated with anxiety levels of patients with chronic kidney disease who underwent hemodialysis therapy (p-Value = 0.005) in the site area.