Exploring Patients ’ Perceptions About Chronic Kidney Disease and Their Treatment: A Qualitative Study

ConclusionsSeveral meaningful and modifiable illness perceptions do not change for the better by means of nephrology care. This underlines the need to identify and openly discuss illness perceptions and to support patients with unhelpful illness perceptions. Future studies should investigate whether implementing illness perception-based tools will indeed improve outcomes in CKD.
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Medicine - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research