The psychological defensive profile of hemodialysis patients and its relationship to health-related quality of life

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 201, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 621-628

  Carvalho, André F ^a   Ramírez, Susana P ^a   Macêdo, Danielle S ^a   Sales, Paulo Marcelo G ^a   Rebouças, Juliana C ^a   Daher, Elizabeth F ^a   Hyphantis, Thomas N ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Defense mechanisms; End stage renal disease; Health related quality of life; Hemodialysis; Psychological distress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEFENSE STYLE QUESTIONNAIRE; DEMENTIA; DENIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOMATIZATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANXIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RENAL DIALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879880546     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318298294d     Document Type: Article

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