Feelings of Burden and Perceived Social Support Among Relatives of Hemodialysis Patients

Adem Sezen, Ahmet Y.senyurt, Ahmet C.dikmen, Birkan Tapan and Erengül Sezen
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Adem Sezen: Istanbul Bilim University, Turkey
Ahmet Y.senyurt: Abant İzzet Baysal University, Turkey
Ahmet C.dikmen: International Cyprus University, Cyprus
Birkan Tapan: Istanbul Bilim University, Turkey
Erengül Sezen: International Cyprus University, Cyprus

The Russian Academic Journal, 2015, vol. 34, issue 4

Abstract:

Caregivers are vulnerable to physical, psychological, and economical problems. Caregivers of hemodialysis patients should deal witheconomical difficulties due to job loss, or social life difficulties due to time strain of dialysis treatment. It is a fact that caregivers ofhemodialysis patients suffer from caregiver burden. Our study aims to discover risk and protective factors of caregiver burden. For thisaim, Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WOC), and Zarit Caregiver BurdenScale (ZCB) delivered to 150 caregivers. Results revealed that protective factors are age and emotion focused coping. Surprisingly, noeffect of perceived social support was found.

Keywords: caregivers, hemodialysis patients, social support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-02-10
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