The autogenic training on dialysis as a mental place of serenity and well being

Maria Fatima Cavallaro

Abstract


Background: Chronic kidney failure (CKF) and consequent haemodialytical treatment envolve a particular viewpoint that has to include not only the purely physical and medical range, but also the psychological one. The complexity of sensations and feelings caused by this chronic condition are loss, wear, commitment, fear, resignation, rage, compulsion for a totally machine depending life. These factors create a considerable psychological damage that cannot be underrated because they express the whole body–mind involvement so much to affect, heavily, all lifestyle.


Methods: The autogenic training (AT) is a method to reduce psychological sensations such as anxiety, depression and distress. Introducing it in the two haemodialysis units belonging to the same private hospital has been an innovation.


Results: The great number of the treated persons has given us widely convincing results and a proved efficacy. As a matter of fact, the psychological symptoms of anxiety, depression and distress have significantly decreased in the experimental group [p<0,001], on the contrary they have increased in the control group [p<0,050]. The comparison between the groups has also pointed out this statistically meaningful data [p<0,001]. The present research project includes the psychological therapies into the nephrological context, and it verifies and analyses the previous projects which developed Psycho-nephrology.


Conclusions: The psycho-neuro-endocrine-immunology (PNEI) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) support these knowledges and invite health workers to do this experience (with the convinced evolvement of multidisciplinary team) preferring the holistic approach to the person considering his/her remarkable psychic pain. The use of the AT method reduces a lot not only the psychological pain but also the physical one. This is a kind of pain therapy for the patient well-being.


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