African Journal of Urology

Table 2 Stimuli and representations of phobia of renal failure according to CSM

From: Experience of a tertiary-level urology center in the clinical urological events of rare and very rare incidence. III. Psychourological events: 2. Phobia of renal failure due to loin pain

A: Illness stimuli	Sources	Status		Patients (n = 78)	Percentages
	Lay information	Yes		78	100
	Lay information	None		0	0
	External information	Yes		78	100
	Current experience	None		0	0
		Self		0	0
		Known patients^a		78	100
			Father	6	7.6
			Mother	5	6.4
			Brother	3	3.9
			Sister	2	2.6
			Distant relative	49	62.8
			Neighbor	8	10.3
			Occupational	5	6.4
B: Illness representations		Levels	Domains	Clinical expressions
		Levels	Domains	Native	Altered/Announced
		Cognitive	Cause	Undetermined (n = 47) Non-renal (n = 31)	Renal pathology
			Identity	Loin pain	CKD/ESRD
			Timeline	Stationary/Regressive	Chronic/Progressive
			Controllability	Controllable	Non-controllable
			Consequence	None or minimal	HD and death
		Emotional	Distress/Anxiety	None or minimal fear	Irrational fear

CSM the common sense model (CSM) of illness representation, CKD chronic kidney disease, ESRD end-stage renal disease, HD hemodialysis
^aSource of information was from an individual who was related or known to the patient and was on hemodialysis or died from renal failure

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