How Do Thai Patients With End Stage Renal Disease Adapt to Being Dependent on Haemodialysis? A Pilot Study

Abstract

Thai patients with ESRD felt treatment, including HD, adversely affected their lives and required physical, psychological and social changes to enable them to cope. They reported use of a range of strategies to deal with the adverse effects.

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“…Ko et al, 2007;Martinez and Custodio, 2014) and studying a non-representative sample of the dialysis population such as African Americans (Spinale et al, 2008;Thomas and Washington, 2011) or women only (Tanyi and Werner, 2008b). One qualitative study in this review (Yodchai et al, 2011) recruited a sample of only five participants and so, based on its findings, it might not be possible to conclude that all patients employ spirituality/religion as a way of coping with their disease.…”

“…They found that spirituality is essential in buffering against and reducing anger, depression, anxiety, and bitterness, and thereby fosters coping. Correspondingly, in Thailand, patients also reported that spirituality helps them to adapt to HD treatment and to maintain role function and interdependence as well as coping with the mental challenges of HD (Yodchai et al, 2011).…”

“…Although the main aim of the other three studies was not to explore spirituality, they highlighted that spirituality was important in the lives of their study participants as emerged from their findings. For instance, one study examined the lived experience of patients with ESRD (Tanyi and Werenr, 2008a), one study explored the different coping strategies within this population (Yodchai et al, 2011) and the other study explored stories of spirituality in patients with chronic illnesses where a number of patients diagnosed with ESRD was recruited to participate (Molzahn et al, 2012). Only four quantitative studies examined the relationship between spirituality and QOL or HRQOL of patients receiving HD treatment.…”

“…Of the 22 studies, six used a qualitative approach including grounded theory (Walton, 2002 andYodchai et al, 2011), descriptive phenomenology (Tanyi and Werner, 2008a;Tanyi and Werner, 2008b) and one study used narrative inquiry (Molzahn et al, 2012). Ten studies employed a cross-sectional survey design.…”

“…For instance, Tanyi andWerner (2008a and2008b) recruited women only, Walton (2007) recruited American Indians and Yudchai et al, (2011) recruited Buddhist patients only. In addition, three of the studies were carried out in one dialysis unit (Walton, 2002;Yodchai et al, 2011), or in one geographical area (Molzhan et al, 2012). Second, using self-selection as a sampling method may have introduced some bias as only those who are spiritual may choose to participate.…”