THE EFFECT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF FAMILY-CENTERED EMPOWERMENT MODEL ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR KIDNEY TRANSPLANT PATIENTS

Renal transplantation is one of the main treatments for patients with end stage
renal disease. Although transplant can lead to a better quality of life, long term survival and reduce costs,
but not free from of complications. Due to the promotion of quality of life and awareness of
complications and self-care these patients is special important, Therefore, this study was carried out to
determine the effect of family-centered empowerment model on the quality of life of the kidney
transplantation patients reffered to the the Urmia Imam Khomeini University hospital in 2016.
Material & Methods: This research is a quesi-experimental study in two groups of experimental and
control that accomplished on 60 kidney transplant patients and 60 active member of family met the
inclusion criteria reffered to the Urmia Imam Khomeini University hospital transplantation center in
2016. After sampling by purposive, subjects (60 patients) were randomly assigned to experimental (30
patients and 30 active member of family) and control (30 patients and 30 active member of family)
group. The research tools were demographic and kidney transplant questionnaires (KTQ25).For
experimental group, family-centered empowerment model was implemented with four dimensions of
perceived threat, problem solving, educational partnership and evaluation, and control group were care
by the kidney transplant part usual care. Data were analyzed using descriptive and analytic statistic with
SPSS version 20.
Result: The mean total score of quality of life in experimental group before intervention was (3.97±1.05)
and after intervention was (5.80±0.77) that was statistically significant (p=0.0001). Independent t-test
revealed that there was statistically significant difference between the mean total score of quality of life
in between experimental and control group after intervention (p<0.05).
Conclusion: In general, performing family-centered empowerment model is effective on quality of life
promotion self-efficacy, in kidney transplant patients.