Psychiatric adjustment in end-stage renal disease: A follow up study of former paediatric patients

doi:10.1016/0022-3999(94)90034-5

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volume 38, Issue 4, May 1994, Pages 293-303

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Abstract

Life-time psychiatric adjustment was studied in forty-five young adult survivors of a paediatric dialysis and transplantation programme and in a comparison group matched for age and sex. Renal patients reported more psychological problems in childhood and had lower self-esteem in adulthood, but adult lifetime psychiatric morbidity was comparable in both groups. There were differences in the pattern of psychiatric disorder with a trend for more depressive states in the renal group. Lower self-esteem was linked to early onset renal disease and to educational and social dysfunction. Results indicate relatively favourable adult adjustment of juvenile renal patients.

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^☆: Work carried out at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Manchester M9 2AA, U.K.

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Psychiatric adjustment in end-stage renal disease: A follow up study of former paediatric patients☆

Abstract

J Adol

J Psychosom Res

Am J Med

Chronic physical illness in childhood; psychological and social effects in adolescence and adult life

Dev Med Child Neurol

Prevalence of mental disorders in young adults with chronic physical diseases since childhood as identified by the Present State Examination and the C ATEGO program

Acta Psychiat Scand

Psychiatric adjustment in children with chronic renal failure

J Child Psychol Psychiat

After transplantation–the child's emotional reactions

Am J Psychiat

Home Haemodialysis in Children. Report of the London Home Dialysis Group

Lancet

Combined report on regular dialysis and transplantation of children in Europe

Nephol Dial Transplant

Rehabilitation of pediatric renal allograft recipients the present status and problems

Transplant Proc

Long term outcome of treatment of end stage renal failure

Arch Dis Child

Visibility of handicap, self-concept, and social maturity among young adult survivors of end-stage renal disease

Dev Behav Pediatrics

Role identities of the dialysis patient

Nephrology Nurse

Adolescent's adjustment to chronic haemodialysis

Am J Psychiat

How parents and families cope with chronic renal failure

Arch Dis Child

Parental Overprotection: A Risk Factor in Psychosocial Development

Psychosocial aspects of chronic renal failure

Br J Hosp Med

Choosing death: Withdrawal from chronic dialysis without medical reason

Acta Med Scand