title: Illness representations and concurrent depression symptoms in haemodialysis patients.
abstract: We examined the association between illness perceptions and depression symptoms in established haemodialysis patients (HD). Two hundred and fifteen patients completed the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire and the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI). Patients with a BDI ≥ 16 were termed as 'depressed'. Lower personal control and illness coherence, and greater perceived consequences were all related to depression significantly increasing the explained variance over clinical factors. Our findings suggest it is not disease characteristics or co-morbidity per se that is related to mood symptoms in HD patients, rather the apparent interpretation and regulation of the illness.
authors: School of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK. j.chilcot@herts.ac.uk
authors: Joseph
authors: J
authors: Chilcot
authors: David
authors: D
authors: Wellsted
authors: Andrew
authors: A
authors: Davenport
authors: Ken
authors: K
authors: Farrington
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D015897:Comorbidity; D003863:Depression / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D013222:State Medicine; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom