The Relationship Between Self-Care Behavior and Concerns About Body Image in Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis in Iran

Hemodialysis treatment saves the life of people with end-stage renal disease (ERDS), but does not prevent the suffering of the disease, anxiety, hopelessness, and so on. Many studies have been performed on self-care behaviors as well as body image in different patients, but so far, no research has b...

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Veröffentlicht in:Frontiers in public health 2022-03, Vol.10, p.825415-825415
Hauptverfasser: Sharif Nia, Hamid, Kohestani, Daniyal, Froelicher, Erika Sivarajan, Ibrahim, Fatima Muhammad, Ibrahim, Maryam Mohammad, Bayat Shahparast, Fatemeh, Goudarzian, Amir Hossein
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Zusammenfassung:Hemodialysis treatment saves the life of people with end-stage renal disease (ERDS), but does not prevent the suffering of the disease, anxiety, hopelessness, and so on. Many studies have been performed on self-care behaviors as well as body image in different patients, but so far, no research has been done to investigate the relationship between self-care behavior and body image concerns in hemodialysis patients. Therefore, the aims of this study are to determine the relationship between self-care behavior and body image concern in patients undergoing hemodialysis. A cross-sectional design was used to evaluate Self-care Behavior and Concerns about Body Image in a convenience sample of 280 patients with ERDS. Measures included demographic factors, health characteristics, and validated instruments of the study constructs Body Image Concern Questionnaire (BICI) and Assessment of self-care behaviors with arteriovenous fistula (ASBHD-AVF). This study showed that self-care behaviors have the ability to predict body image concerns. There was a negative and significant relationship between self-care behavior and body image concern ( = -0.162, β = -0.140, = 0.020). These variables explain 7.5% of predictors. Although the findings of the present study showed that increasing age and improving the level of self-care behaviors in patients undergoing hemodialysis reduces body image anxiety, but women were the strongest predictor of body image anxiety.
ISSN:2296-2565
2296-2565
DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2022.825415