The Life Experience of Patient Chronic Kidney Under Hemodialysis Treatment at Bandar Lampung Adventist Hospital

Abstract

Chronic Kidney Failure (CKD) is a global health problem that shows a very high mortality
rate. The one of the treatments in patients with chronic kidney failure is hemodialysis.
Hemodialysis (HD) is very important for patients with chronic kidney failure because
hemodialysis is uses to sustain life for people with chronic kidney failure and can prevent
death but hemodialysis will not cure the kidney disease itself. Patients with chronic renal failure
should undergo lifelong hemodialysis therapy. Patients’ experience under hemodialysis
therapy is very phenomenal because have a number of important problems both physically and
psychologically as the effect of hemodialysis therapy. The objective of the research was to find
out the life experience of patients chronic kidney failure under hemodialysis treatment. The
research was a phenomenological descriptive study. The data were gathered by conducting indepth interviews. The samples were 5 people, they were 3 male and 2 female, participants age
ranged between 25- 60 years, with duration of received maintenance hemodialysis least one
year. The samples taken by using purposive sampling technique. The interview was conducted
at the hemodialysis room in Bandar Lampung Adventist Hospital. The result of the interviews
was analyzed by using Creswell method. It was found that there were eight categories. The
categories found in this research are cognator, regulator, role function physiological-physical,
change of self-concept, role function, interdependence, development of self-efficacy and
adaptive. The life experience of patients with chronic kidney failure and the coping mechanism
they use is a way to develop knowledge in treating patients with chronic kidney failure
comprehensively.