Cognitive, psychosocial, and physical development in infants and children with end-stage renal disease.
The purpose of this article is to synthesize research related to the cognitive, physical, and psychosocial development of children with end-stage renal disease who are receiving conservative management, hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, or who have received transplants. An impressive array of research in these three areas of development was found, but more work is needed. Suggestions are made for more multicenter research with larger sample sizes and greater generalizability. In addition, more developmental research that includes measures of renal disease, such as age at onset, severity of disease, and length of time in renal failure, is needed.
Frauman
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School of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.
Myers
J T
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D017582:Renal Replacement Therapy