Authors : Tayebeh khosravi Pour, Roghayeh Esmaieli, Tahereh Ashktorab, Nozhat Shakeri and Kianoush Niroumand
Abstract: Pruritus is an uncompromising, unpleasant and upsetting subjective complaints that provokes the desire to scratch and causes the function of the skin as a main protective barrier, becomes ineffective. The main goal of this purpose is to determine the effect of Orem self care program on uremic pruritus of the patients of the Hemodialysis centers of the Valiasr hospitals of the Nourabad Mamasani and Kazerun in 2015. The number of the samples is 60 and theywere selected purposefully and were studied in the two group of the case and witness (each group includes 30 patients). The independent variable was the orem self care program and the dependent variable was the uremic pruritus. The studied society includes all patients with end-stage chronic renal failure that in the dialysis section of the Valiasr hospitals of the Nourabad Mamasani and Kazerun affiliated to the Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. It is recommended that health care providers and nurses should improve the self care abilities by enforcing the self care in these patients based on the nursing theories and care program. Due to the lack of study in the filed of the effect of the self care program on uremic pruritus in hemodialysis patients and the high incidence of this skin disease and its effect on the lifestyle of these patients, the study about performing the Orem self care program on uremic pruritus in hemodialysis patientsseems a necessity.
Tayebeh khosravi Pour, Roghayeh Esmaieli, Tahereh Ashktorab, Nozhat Shakeri and Kianoush Niroumand, 2016. The Effect of Orem Self Care Program on Uremic Pruritus in Hemodialysis Patients. Agricultural Journal, 11: 6-11.