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The person on chronic haemodialysis treatment: influence of " self-actualization" in accepting desease

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Resumo:This study of the emotional state of the haemodialysis (HD)patients, evaluates the success, or not, to feel acceptance and value, becoming fulfilled itself, although the incapacity, dependency and uselessness feelings that the illness causes. To assess the relationship between the emotional state related as acceptance and the level of self-actualization that the haemodialysis patients. This is a quantitative descriptive and explanatory cross-correlated study of 150 adults’ haemodialysis patients. We selected two scales to assess the phenomena in question: “Acceptance of Illness Scale, Felton’s, 1984, and the “Self-Actualization Scale”, Guerra, 1992. The statistical tests had been based on the application of the coefÀ cient of Pearson’s correlation, analysis of variance ANOVA, T test and Levene’s test. The majority of the sample is constituted by men (62%) and the average of ages is about 52.7 years old. We found a moderate positive correlation (r = 640) and statistical signiÀ cant (p < 0,001) between the changeable self-actualization and the changeable acceptance of the illness, allows us to infer that an increase in the self-actualization levels permits the increase of the acceptance and vice-versa. From all the results we can infer, with significant statistics that how much bigger it will be the self-actualization biggest will be the acceptance of the illness. The person on haemodialysis treatment, it is collated with limitations in its daily life but it must react searching a direction for life, a reason that makes it move and not adopt a state of passive resignation. The health professionals can help it in this process of development of its potentials, necessary and positive to its accomplishment as person.
Autores principais:Baptista, Gorete
Outros Autores:Galvão, Ana Maria; Pimentel, Maria Helena
Assunto:Acceptance Self-actualization Illness HD
Ano:2014
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:documento de conferência
Tipo de acesso:acesso aberto
Instituição associada:Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Idioma:inglês
Origem:Biblioteca Digital do IPB
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Resumo:This study of the emotional state of the haemodialysis (HD)patients, evaluates the success, or not, to feel acceptance and value, becoming fulfilled itself, although the incapacity, dependency and uselessness feelings that the illness causes. To assess the relationship between the emotional state related as acceptance and the level of self-actualization that the haemodialysis patients. This is a quantitative descriptive and explanatory cross-correlated study of 150 adults’ haemodialysis patients. We selected two scales to assess the phenomena in question: “Acceptance of Illness Scale, Felton’s, 1984, and the “Self-Actualization Scale”, Guerra, 1992. The statistical tests had been based on the application of the coefÀ cient of Pearson’s correlation, analysis of variance ANOVA, T test and Levene’s test. The majority of the sample is constituted by men (62%) and the average of ages is about 52.7 years old. We found a moderate positive correlation (r = 640) and statistical signiÀ cant (p < 0,001) between the changeable self-actualization and the changeable acceptance of the illness, allows us to infer that an increase in the self-actualization levels permits the increase of the acceptance and vice-versa. From all the results we can infer, with significant statistics that how much bigger it will be the self-actualization biggest will be the acceptance of the illness. The person on haemodialysis treatment, it is collated with limitations in its daily life but it must react searching a direction for life, a reason that makes it move and not adopt a state of passive resignation. The health professionals can help it in this process of development of its potentials, necessary and positive to its accomplishment as person.