Timothy Moreels, Dominique Van de Velde, Justine Goethals, Karsten Vanden Wyngaert, Stijn De Baets, Evi Nagler, Tamara Leune, Patricia De Vriendt, Wim Van Biesen
BACKGROUND: For persons with kidney failure, life participation is a critically important outcome, strongly linked to quality of life and mortality. To support patients' self-management abilities, three domains are typically emphasized: medical management, emotional management, and management of everyday life ( i.e. , role management). Although role management is strongly linked to life participation, there is currently limited research on interventions designed to support it. We explored existing self-management interventions that aim to support everyday life functioning, rather than only medical management...
November 9, 2023: Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology: CJASN