Factors influencing peritoneal dialysis patients' psychosocial adjustment

Tsae‐Jyy Wang, Mei‐Yu Lin, Shu‐Yuan Liang, Shu‐Fang Vivienne Wu, Heng‐Hsin Tung and Shiow‐Luan Tsay

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2014, vol. 23, issue 1-2, 82-90

Abstract: Aims and objectives The specific aims of this study were as follows: (1) to describe psychosocial adjustment in adults with end‐stage renal disease who underwent maintenance peritoneal dialysis; (2) to explore the influence of demographics, clinical variables, symptom distress and social support on psychosocial adjustment and (3) to determine predictive factors of psychosocial adjustment. Background Proper psychosocial adjustment is important for patients with end‐stage renal disease to cope with multiple stressors of their disease and to balance their lives within the restrictions imposed by peritoneal dialysis treatment. Knowledge on psychosocial adjustment in patients receiving long‐term peritoneal dialysis has been limited. Design The study was based on a predictive correlational design. Method One hundred peritoneal dialysis patients were recruited from outpatient peritoneal dialysis clinics of a general hospital in Taipei, Taiwan. Data were collected with the study questionnaires, including the Physical Symptom Distress Scale, the Social Support Scale and the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale – self‐report. Results The mean score on the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale was 359·7 (SD = 40·0), indicating that these participants were moderately struggling in adjusting to their illness. Symptom distress, family social support and financial status explained 38·3% of the variance in psychosocial adjustment (F3,96 = 21·5, p

Date: 2014
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