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.
关键词
肾移植/中青年/出院准备度/质性研究,现象学
Key words
kidney transplantation/young and middle-aged/discharge readiness/qualitative studies/phenomenology