Role of Individualized Homoeopathic medicines in management of stresses and adaptive mechanism of care givers of CKD patients on haemo-dialysis through COPE INVENTORY An Experimental study

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is leading causes of death according to the Global Burden of Disease and has become a disease of public health importance. Patients with advanced stage of CKD often require assistance from other people i.e. care-givers; for their activities of daily living. Caregivers are people who are majorly involved in caring and assisting patients during the period of disease. It is associated with a huge socio-economic, physical and psychological burden on its sufferers and their caregivers.

They often experience all sorts of mental health related issues and have an increased risk of stress, depression, anxiety and poor quality of life in the process of providing care and support  to the primary patient i.e. for their close and loved ones.

care-givers often neglects their  psychological or mental health related issues.  This neglect may subsequently impact negatively on the overall outcome of the CKD patients as well.

Support interventions are likely to improve caregivers’ quality of life, satisfaction and ability to cope, which can indirectly improve medical and psychosocial outcomes for the care recipient.

  Developing effective strategies to deal with the expanding population of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is challenging the resources of the nephrology community.

  In the field of Homoeopathy, no such study is conducted, hence the purpose and importance of the topic is first to identify the various mental health related issue in the care –givers and study the role of Homoeopathic interventions for them.

This study will give us idea that in a process of caring the patient how caregivers stand for themselves by using various adaptive or coping mechanisms.  Which are the Homoeopathic remedies have those in qualitative way and why some fails to have those to land into mental health issues. And what changes are seen on quality of life of care givers and as well dialysis patient.

This type of study should promote the use of Homoeopathic intervention in care givers of many chronic diseases everywhere in India and Western countries to reduce mental health issues caregiver to improve the quality of life of whole family.