Anxiety and depression appear frequently in patients who are on hemodialysis. We tried to find whether showing anxiety and depression was related to coping strategy they used in crisis. One hundred and five patients who were on hemodialysis at
Chonnam
National University Hospital. Chosun University Hospital, Kwangju Chri Hospital or Kwangju Namkwang Hospital from Aug 1st, 1990 to Oct 10th 1990 were compared wit thirty persons.
@ES The results were as follow:
@EN 1) Hemodialysis patients showed anxiety and depression more frequently than normal persons.
2) More frequently used coping strategies are redefinition suppression and intellectualization. Depression was strongly correlated with fatalism, acting out, isolation, state anxiety was correlated with shared concern, reduction, isolation and
self-pity, but trait anxiety was not correlated with coping in this study.
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