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Revista Salud Uninorte
Print version ISSN 0120-5552On-line version ISSN 2011-7531
Abstract
MARTINEZ-ROYERT, JUDITH et al. Uncertainty in chronic kidney disease. Salud, Barranquilla [online]. 2020, vol.36, n.2, pp.489-505. Epub Oct 20, 2021. ISSN 0120-5552. https://doi.org/10.14482/sun.36.2.616.6.
The aim of this study was to recognize the most common uncertainties presented by patients diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease. Systematic review was made of the scientific literature of articles published between 2012 to 2018, in Spanish, Portuguese and English, and accessible to text full. Comprehensive and reproducible search of original works in the Scielo, PubMed, Ebschost, Dialnet, Redalyc databases, with the descriptors (DeCS) "Renal Insufficiency Chronic", "Theory of uncertainty", "Renal Dialysis" and their equivalents in Spanish, English, and Portuguese with critical assessment of the scientific quality of the studies applying PRISMA checklist (2009). The uncertainties were analyzed from the nursing theory of MIshel Merle, the findings show that the most common are related to ambiguity and lack of information; Inference of the process, the inference is mostly presented and the confrontation of the disease is seen as a danger manifested with feelings of anxiety and depression.
Keywords : chronic kidney disease; uncertainty; renal dialysis.