‘It is life threatening but I don't mind’. A qualitative study using photo elicitation interviews to explore adolescents' experiences of renal replacement therapies

Abstract

Young people engaged readily with the research, and frankly described the impact of RRT on their everyday lives. Service providers must ensure that adolescents' developmental needs are met as traditional tasks of adolescence may lose priority. However, it is also clear that young people's ability to cope with treatments should not be underestimated.