Korean J Rehabil Nurs.
1999 Dec;2(2):184-192.
Adaptation Process of The Family with Hemodialysis
Abstract
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Hemodialysis is a way of treatment for the patients with acute and chronic renal failure. Marginal man depicts the enormous amount of stress that hemodialytic patients suffer. It is known that family with chronic illness get stressed along with the patients and they need nursing care also.
This qualitative study was conducted in order to identify the family adaptation process in patients with hemodialysis.
6 dyads of hemodialytic patients and caregivers were interviewed for this research.
By way of grounded theoretical strategy the data was collected from October 20, 1999 to November 20, 1999, at a hemodialytic unit that was located in Iksan, Chonbuk by the researcher.
The main research questions were What's the adaptation experience of a patient since after being received with hemodialysis? to the patients, and What's the family adaptation experience of hemodialysis? to the caregivers.
The collected data was analyzed by grounded theoretical strategy built by Glaser & Strauss in 1967.
Results
were as follows; 7 grounded concepts were observed from the patients with hemodialysis and 4 grounded concepts were found from the caregivers. Two categories were derived ; 1) Holding hope that is related with treatment 2) Changing a value system
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