Correlation between coping style and quality of life among hemodialysis patients from a low-income area in Brazil

Hemodialysis International

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 316-321

  Santos, Paulo Roberto ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Coping; End stage renal disease; Hemodialysis; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CALCIUM; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; PHOSPHORUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMORBIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; JALOWIEC COPING SCALE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BRAZIL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POVERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RENAL DIALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77955027549     PISSN: 14927535     EISSN: 15424758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-4758.2010.00449.x     Document Type: Article

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