Qualitative Study on Discharge Readiness Needs of Young and Middle-Aged Kidney Transplant Recipients
Objective: To investigate the discharge preparation needs of young and middle-aged kidney transplant recipients inorder to provide reference for clinical discharge preparation services of high quality. Methods: Based on the transition theory and phenomenological research method, objective to select 11 patients who received living kidney transplantation from relatives in a top-three hospital in Hefei, Anhui Province for semi-structured in-depth interviews. Colaizzi 7-step analysis method was used to code and summarize the data and extract the themes. Results: Five themes of discharge preparation needs of kidney transplant recipients were analyzed, which were disease knowledge needs, specialized nursing needs, family needs, social care needs, psychological intervention needs and referral service needs. Conclusion: Kidney transplant recipients have low comfort, high uncertainty, anxiety and depression during treatment, and need external support. It is suggested that medical staff should strengthen the publicity and popularization of disease related knowledge of kidney transplant recipients, Therefore, it's important pay attention to the diverse needs of kidney transplant recipients.
kidney transplantationyoung and middle-ageddischarge readinessqualitative studiesphenomenology
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维普
