Revised dyadic adjustment scale as a reliable tool for assessment of quality of marital relationship in patients on long-term hemodialysis.

Although the revised dyadic adjustment scale (RDAS) has been widely used as an indicator of the quality of marital relationship, no report is available on the reliability of this measure in patients on hemodialysis. We examined the internal consistency of the RDAS in a group of Iranian patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. A translated Persian version of the RDAS was self-administered to 135 patients.

Marital adjustment in patients on long-term hemodialysis: a case-control study.

Introduction: This study was conducted to compare marital adjustment between patients on long-term hemodialysis and healthy controls and to determine whether the psychological symptoms correlate with marital adjustment in these patients.

Materials And Methods: In a case-control study, 40 patients on long-term hemodialysis and 40 healthy participants were compared for the quality of marital relationship. The Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale was used for interviews of marital relationship, which includes total marital adjustment and its subscales of marital consensus, affection expression, marital satisfaction, and marital cohesion.

Effect of depression on health care utilization in patients with end-stage renal disease treated with hemodialysis.

Background And Objectives: Depression is regarded as the most common psychiatric abnormality in patients on hemodialysis (HD) for end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Although several studies have demonstrated a relationship between depression and utilization of health care in ESRD and other chronic illnesses in developing countries, such evidence from hemodialysis patients is lacking in Iran. This study aims to investigate the effect of depression on health care utilization among Iranian hemodialysis patients.

Socioeconomic links to health-related quality of life, anxiety, and depression in kidney transplant recipients.

Introduction: The impact of socioeconomic status on the chance of being a candidate of kidney transplantation and its effect on graft survival has been documented. Our aim was to investigate the association of socioeconomic status with kidney allograft recipients' health-related quality of life and level of anxiety and depression.

Materials And Methods: Two hundred and forty-two kidney transplant recipients were categorized according to their monthly family income into low-income, moderate-income, and high-income groups.

Marital relationship and its correlates in kidney recipients.

Marital discordance is known to be associated with morbidity and mortality in chronically ill patients, but its correlates have yet to be fully addressed in renal recipients. The aim of this study was to assess marital relationship and its correlation with patients' morbidity after kidney transplantation. Ninety-three married Iranian kidney recipients who had undergone kidney transplantation in Baqiyatallah Hospital, Tehran, Iran, were assessed for marital adjustment with the Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS).

Logistic regression models for predicting physical and mental health-related quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis patients.

The aim of this work was to develop two logistic regression models capable of predicting physical and mental health related quality of life (HRQOL) among rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. In this cross-sectional study which was conducted during 2006 in the outpatient rheumatology clinic of our university hospital, Short Form 36 (SF-36) was used for HRQOL measurements in 411 RA patients. A cutoff point to define poor versus good HRQOL was calculated using the first quartiles of SF-36 physical and mental component scores (33.

Correlation between sexual function and postrenal transplant quality of life: does gender matter?

Introduction: Subjective health perceptions affect sexual function differently in males and females; such differences, however, have not hitherto been studied comprehensively in kidney-transplant recipients.

Aim: This study sought to investigate gender effect on the correlation between sexual function and quality-of-life (QOL) subdomains in kidney-transplant recipients by evaluating intercourse frequency (IF) and intercourse satisfaction (IS).

Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 124 married kidney-transplant recipients, who were randomly selected, were interviewed.