Employment status and coping strategies of renal patients on hemodialysis

Chronic Kidney Disease is a disabling and high-cost chronic disease for patients who suffer from it their families. When manifests itself at productive age people are active work, permanence in employment risk the world of life patient’s changes face physical damage, constant absences workplace, derived medical consultations, studies relapses; as well secondary effects renal replacement therapy. Faced with this situation, kidney receive hemodialysis multiple stressors day-to-day to remain workplace economically independent. For reason, they often resort mechanisms alternatives deal preserve employment, autonomy, self-esteem, control over them disease. The objective research describe, based on experiences group hemodialysis, coping strategies use disease, recover self-esteem continue be either formally or own.