SOCIAL VARIABLES AFFECTING FUTURE ANXIETY IN PATIENTS WITH RENAL FAILURE : ANTHROPOLOGY RESEARCH AT THE DIALYSIS SCREENING CENTER IN BAGHDAD
Anthropology is concerned with the study of diseases to which a person is exposed and their psychological and social effects on his immediate and future life. Chronic and dangerous diseases threatening human life have become a problem in various societies, both developed and backward. Perhaps the scientific progress in the medical and health fields that most peoples and societies have enjoyed has become a double-edged sword as it has become a path for the spread of chronic organic diseases and psychological diseases that pose a clear threat to human life. And among the most important of these chronic diseases, kidney failure disease, which is considered one of the serious diseases that accompanies a person for a long period of his life, which affects the patient's physical and psychological condition, since this disease has negative dimensions on the psychological structure of the human being, as it intersects with many organic diseases And the dangerous psychological, that patients with chronic renal failure associated with and restricted to treatment and dialysis, generates in the patients "organic" physiological problems and various psychological problems, as this disease affects the family bonding of the patients' families. Inferiority and lack of respect and self-esteem, and consequently psychological disorders such as anxiety, depression, impotence and loneliness have been proven. Studies show that patients with kidney failure suffer from anxiety to a degree that does not allow them to fulfill their future life requirements as required, and their hope in life diminishes.
Keywords: Disease, Renal Failure, Dialyses, Future Anxiety, Variable