Spirituality in Renal Failure Patients with Hemodialysis

DOI

10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.042How to use a DOI?

Keywords

spirituality, renal failure, hemodialysis

Abstract

Patients with chronic renal failure who do hemodialysis can reduce the risk of damage to vital organs due to accumulation of toxic substances in the circulation, but this action does not heal or restore kidney function permanently. Patients undergoing long-term hemodialysis will face various problems, such as lack of control over the activities of daily life and social life. Chronic renal failure is a terminal illness that will affect the patient’s quality of life, including their spirituality. Spiritual issues are considered to have effects in patients with renal failure who undergoing hemodialysis. Spiritual considered to be able to maintain an optimistic perspective that may impact on increasing immunity. This research uses descriptive research design. The sample size in this study are 58 respondents. The total sampling technique were used. The research instrument was a questionnaire Daily Spiritual Experience Scale (DSES). The data in this research were analyzed by using frequency distribution. The results showed a large majority of respondents had elderly age category (46–65 years) as many as 37 respondents (63.8%), and male sex were 32 respondents (55.2%) and patient who underwent Haemodyalisis for less than 6 months were 38 respondents (65.5 %). Most respondents have a high spirituality as much as 48 respondents (82.8%). The need for special assessments related to the patient’s spiritual, so that health professionals can implement to address spiritual problems of patients .

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Adiratna Sekar Siwi
AU  - Azka Fathiyatir Rizqillah
AU  - Amalia Lestari
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/10
TI  - Spirituality in Renal Failure Patients with Hemodialysis
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Community Health (ICCH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 188
EP  - 191
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.042
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.042
ID  - Siwi2020
ER  -