| Theme | Initiation, Maintenance and Discontinuation of Dialysis Therapy | |
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| Title | Mental support for the family of dialysis patients | |
| Publish Date | 1998/07 | |
| Author | Kiichiro Sato | Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Kitasato University |
| [ Summary ] | As the family role on the decision making of their patient become more important, they had often similar psychiatric problems to the patient. Though family members live separately, they are react emotionally with each other as an extended family and often shares the same psychiatric problems as the patient. From the viewpoint of psycho-nephrology, the introduction time is considerd to be the first year, because various psychiatric problems related to grief and worry are easily induced by loss of some object after the start of treatment. We hope to prevent problems, such as depression and / or social withdrawal by the patient and family. Therefore, we must support family members and help them comprehensively cope with their problems in this first year of treatment. |
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