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Influence of Type D personality on health‐related quality of life among Korean patients with end‐stage renal disease
Author(s) -
Son YounJung,
You MiAe,
Song Eun Kyeung
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of nursing practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1440-172X
pISSN - 1322-7114
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-172x.2012.02030.x
Subject(s) - type d personality , personality , end stage renal disease , negative affectivity , quality of life (healthcare) , medicine , clinical psychology , disease , outpatient clinic , social inhibition , psychiatry , psychology , anxiety , nursing , social psychology , social anxiety
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.