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Introduction:<\/strong> Renal disease is a condition that has important repercussions on the patients’ quality of\u00a0life and more specifically on their social, economic and individual well-being. The aim of the present study\u00a0was to investigate the repercussions of hemodialysis in end-stage renal disease patients. The following\u00a0aspects were studied: admission to hemodialysis, social life, hospital environment and relations developing\u00a0within it, and also individual attitudes and perceptions.<\/p>\n Materials and Methods:<\/strong> In the present qualitative study, the people who were selected to participate in\u00a0the interviews (n=5) were of different ages, family status, lifestyles and backgrounds. The interviews took\u00a0place either in the Hemodialysis Unit or anywhere the informant wanted to. Mixed questions were used,\u00a0so that the participants could either elaborate on something, or give specific answers.<\/p>\n Results:<\/strong> It was found that the patients\u2019 admission to hemodialysis triggers a series of changes in their\u00a0personalities, their financial and professional status, their interpersonal and social relationships, and\u00a0their self-image, having an overall negative impact on their quality of life.<\/p>\n Conclusions:<\/strong> Well-coordinated and targeted efforts are needed, in order for the patients to have a better\u00a0quality of daily life. The patients undergo major lifestyle changes and depend on the hemodialysis machine,\u00a0consequently it is required that an interdisciplinary healthcare team be created, which could help alleviating\u00a0the physical and psychosocial effects of hemodialysis and lead to a better quality of life for the patients.<\/p>\n Key-words:<\/strong> hemodialysis, perceptions, physical effects, psychosocial effects, quality of life, qualitative\u00a0study, renal disease<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ABSTRACT Introduction: Renal disease is a condition that has important repercussions on the patients’ quality of\u00a0life and more specifically on their social, economic and individual well-being. [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[2081,2080,481,321,493,2083,2082],"eidos-arthrou":[1807],"keyword":[],"language":[1841],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iss_2_5","tag-filippopoulou-theodora","tag-minos-christos","tag-rekleiti-maria","tag-saridi-maria","tag-souliotis-kyriakos","tag-spyridakis-manos","tag-tzitzikos-georgios","eidos-arthrou-erevnitika-arthra","language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9467,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/9467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"eidos-arthrou","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eidos-arthrou?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/periodiko.yaba.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}