Coping of diabetic nephropathy in the family: an approach in perspective Calgary Family Assessment Model. A qualitative study

This work tries to understand how a family faces the care with one of its members with diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy during dialysis treatment. This is a qualitative study, conducted by the purposes of ethnographic method, which used the Calgary Family Assessment Model (MCAF) for collecting data...

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Main Authors: Gisele Fráguas, Sônia Maria Soares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal Fluminense, Escola de Enfermagem Aurora de Afonso Costa 2007-10-01
Series:Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing
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Online Access:http://www.uff.br/objnursing/index.php/nursing/article/view/j.1676-4285.2007.1205
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description This work tries to understand how a family faces the care with one of its members with diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy during dialysis treatment. This is a qualitative study, conducted by the purposes of ethnographic method, which used the Calgary Family Assessment Model (MCAF) for collecting data. The research envolved seven families from diabetic patients attending two dialysis therapy units in Belo Horizonte, MG. Several resources were used to collect data, such as the Calgary Model, the participative observation, the semi-structured interviews, the field diary and documentary analysis. Data was analysed afterwards according to the theory of Bardin (1977) about analysis of content. Three thematic concepts emerged from the analysis of data showing the impacts of the dialysis treatment on the patient’s family life. The first one is the concept of family under the point of view of the patient with diabetic nephropathy; the second, the diabetic nephropathy and the dialysis treatment in relation to family life; and the third, the intimacy and the care for a person with diabetic nephropathy. The results suggested that each family has resources to take care of its members even faced to health problems. Then, this study showed how the family faces the new situations that arise from the patient’s illness, like the dialysis treatment routine and the complications of the disease that make him dependent. This fact shows the necessity to view the family as a focus for nursing care. The health professionals should envolve the family in the treatment care and incentivate its members to look for resources inside its unity and its closer social environment.
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spelling doaj.art-9dee803a7fcc4d47893abf40052728682023-08-02T01:24:13ZengUniversidade Federal Fluminense, Escola de Enfermagem Aurora de Afonso CostaOnline Brazilian Journal of Nursing1676-42852007-10-010603Coping of diabetic nephropathy in the family: an approach in perspective Calgary Family Assessment Model. A qualitative studyGisele FráguasSônia Maria SoaresThis work tries to understand how a family faces the care with one of its members with diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy during dialysis treatment. This is a qualitative study, conducted by the purposes of ethnographic method, which used the Calgary Family Assessment Model (MCAF) for collecting data. The research envolved seven families from diabetic patients attending two dialysis therapy units in Belo Horizonte, MG. Several resources were used to collect data, such as the Calgary Model, the participative observation, the semi-structured interviews, the field diary and documentary analysis. Data was analysed afterwards according to the theory of Bardin (1977) about analysis of content. Three thematic concepts emerged from the analysis of data showing the impacts of the dialysis treatment on the patient’s family life. The first one is the concept of family under the point of view of the patient with diabetic nephropathy; the second, the diabetic nephropathy and the dialysis treatment in relation to family life; and the third, the intimacy and the care for a person with diabetic nephropathy. The results suggested that each family has resources to take care of its members even faced to health problems. Then, this study showed how the family faces the new situations that arise from the patient’s illness, like the dialysis treatment routine and the complications of the disease that make him dependent. This fact shows the necessity to view the family as a focus for nursing care. The health professionals should envolve the family in the treatment care and incentivate its members to look for resources inside its unity and its closer social environment.http://www.uff.br/objnursing/index.php/nursing/article/view/j.1676-4285.2007.1205familydiabetic nephropathieschronic disease
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Sônia Maria Soares
Coping of diabetic nephropathy in the family: an approach in perspective Calgary Family Assessment Model. A qualitative study
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family
diabetic nephropathies
chronic disease
title Coping of diabetic nephropathy in the family: an approach in perspective Calgary Family Assessment Model. A qualitative study
title_full Coping of diabetic nephropathy in the family: an approach in perspective Calgary Family Assessment Model. A qualitative study
title_fullStr Coping of diabetic nephropathy in the family: an approach in perspective Calgary Family Assessment Model. A qualitative study
title_full_unstemmed Coping of diabetic nephropathy in the family: an approach in perspective Calgary Family Assessment Model. A qualitative study
title_short Coping of diabetic nephropathy in the family: an approach in perspective Calgary Family Assessment Model. A qualitative study
title_sort coping of diabetic nephropathy in the family an approach in perspective calgary family assessment model a qualitative study
topic family
diabetic nephropathies
chronic disease
url http://www.uff.br/objnursing/index.php/nursing/article/view/j.1676-4285.2007.1205
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