title: Survival on home haemodialysis: its relationship with physical symptomatology, psychosocial background and psychiatric morbidity.
abstract: An entire group of 32 home dialysis patients from one hospital renal unit was assessed for psychiatric morbidity on a standardized interview of proven reliability. A rating of physical symptomatology and an enquiry into the childhood and psychosocial background were made at the same time. Psychiatric morbidity, physical symptomatology and a history of good relationships with both natural parents in childhood were inter-related. They were all related to survival on haemodialysis 3 1/2 years later. Survival was also associated with a coping spouse and full-time employment or housework by the patient. These findings are discussed in the light of current concepts of the psychosocial setting for physical illness.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006437:Hemodialysis, Home / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000401:mortality* / Q000523:psychology; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous