Helping families respond effectively to chronic illness: home dialysis as a case example.
This paper describes the functioning patterns of twenty families with one member on home dialysis. It also includes a description of task accomplishment, role performance, communication, affective involvement and control. It reports some findings related to marital satisfaction from a retrospective study of 291 home dialysis patients and their spouses in sixteen Ontario centres.
D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006437:Hemodialysis, Home / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D012947:Social Work