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Does Type D personality impact health-related quality of life in patients with end-stage renal disease?
Does Type D personality impact health-related quality of life in patients with end-stage renal disease?
Type D personality independently predicts poorer health-related quality of life in ESRD patients, an effect mediated by depressive symptoms.
Son Y‐J, You M‐A, Song E‐K. International Journal of Nursing Practice 2012; 18 : 260–267 Influence of Type D personality on health‐related quality of life among Korean patients with end‐stage renal disease The purposes of this study were to explore the prevalence of Type D personality and the impact of Type D personality (the combination of negative affectivity and social inhibition) on health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) in end‐stage renal disease (ESRD) patients and to determine whether this link of Type D personality to HRQOL is mediated by depressive symptoms. Patients ( n = 144) from an outpatient nephrology clinic of a university hospital participated in this cross‐sectional study. The prevalence of Type D personality using Type D Personality Scale‐14 was 26%. After adjustment for patients' characteristics and depressive symptoms in multivariate analysis, Type D personality was an independent predictor of HRQOL. This relation of Type D personality to HRQOL was mediated by depressive symptoms. Our findings underline that intervention should be directed towards reducing depressive symptoms in patients with Type D personality in order to improve HRQOL of ESRD patients.
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