Luk, Pik Shan Yvonne. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-146). / Abstracts in English and Chinese ; some text in appendix also in Chinese. / Abstract (English version) --- p.ii-iii / Abstract (Chinese version) --- p.iv / Acknowledgement --- p.v / List of Table --- p.vi / Appendices --- p.vii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1-5 / Chapter 2 --- Literature Review / Introduction --- p.6-7 / Psychological Distress --- p.7-13 / Health-related Quality of Life --- p.13-25 / Marital Relationship --- p.26-31 / Summary --- p.31-34 / Chapter 3 --- Aims & Methodology / Aims & Objectives --- p.35-37 / Operational Definition --- p.37-38 / Research Design --- p.38-39 / Setting & Sample --- p.39-40 / Instrument / Psychological Distress --- p.41-43 / Health-related Quality of Life --- p.43.44 / Marital Relationship --- p.44-46 / Demographic Data --- p.47 / Data Collection Procedure --- p.4748 / Ethical Consideration --- p.48-50 / Data Analysis --- p.50-51 / Pilot Study --- p.51-52 / Chapter 4 --- Findings / Introduction --- p.53-54 / Sociodemographic Characteristics --- p.54-56 / Psychological Distress --- p.57-58 / Health-related Quality of Life --- p.59-61 / Marital Relationship --- p.62-65 / Normality of the Outcome Variables --- p.65-66 / Relationships between the Study Outcomes and Sociodemographic Data --- p.66-68 / "Relationships between Anxiety, Depression, Health-Related Quality of Life and Marital Relationship" --- p.68-76 / Summary --- p.16-78 / Chapter 5 --- Discussion / Introduction --- p.79 / Socio-demographic and Clinical Characteristics of CAPD patients --- p.79-84 / Psychological Distress of CAPD Patients --- p.84-85 / Components of Psychological Distress: Anxiety --- p.85-86 / Components of Psychological Distress: Depression --- p.86-88 / Gender differences of the Levels of Anxiety and Depression among CAPD Patients --- p.88-89 / Cultural Difference of Anxiety and Depression among CAPD Patients --- p.89-90 / Health-related Quality of Life among CAPD Patients / Health-related Quality of Life of CAPD Patients Affected by Renal Symptoms --- p.90-91 / Health-related Quality of Life of CAPD Patients Affected by the effects of Kidney Disease --- p.91-93 / Health-related Quality of Life of CAPD Patients Affected by the burden of / Having Kidney Disease --- p.93-94 / Health-related Quality of Life of CAPD Patients Affected by the General Physical Health --- p.94-96 / Health-related Quality of Life of CAPD Patients Affected by the General Mental Health --- p.96-97 / Gender differences of the Levels of Health-related Quality of Life among CAPD Patients --- p.97-98 / Cultural Difference of Health-related Quality of Life among CAPD Patients --- p.98-99 / Sexual Issues and Marital Relationship of CAPD Patients / Sexual Issues of CA PD Patients --- p.100-102 / CAPD Patients' Perception of the Marital Relationship --- p.102-104 / Gender Differences in Perception of the Marital Relationship among CAPD Patients --- p.104 / Cultural Difference in Perception of the Marital Relationship among CAPD Patients --- p.105-106 / "Relationships between Participants' Characteristics and Psychological Distress," / HRQoL and Marital Relationship / "Relationships of Income with Anxiety, Depression and General Mental Health" --- p.107-108 / Relationship between Duration of Receiving Dialysis and Health-related Quality of Life --- p.108-109 / Relationship between Occupational Status and General Mental Health --- p.199.110 / "Relationships among Anxiety, Depression, HRQoL and Marital Relationship" / The Relationship between Anxiety and Depression --- p.110-111 / "The Relationship between Anxiety, Depression and HRQoL" --- p.112 / "The Relationship between Anxiety, Depression and Marital Relationship" --- p.112-113 / The Relationships among Domains of Health-related Quality of Life --- p.113-114 / The Relationship between Health-related Quality of Life and Marital Relationship --- p.114-115 / Predictors of Health-related Quality of Life among CAPD Patients / Anxiety and Depression as Predictors of Health-related Quality of Life --- p.116-118 / Marital Relationship as Predictors of Health-related Quality of Life --- p.118-119 / Summary --- p.119-121 / Chapter 6 --- Conclusion / Limitations / Validity of Participants' Responses --- p.122-123 / Generalization of the Study's Findings --- p.123-124 / Psychometric Property of the Chinese Version of KDQOL-36 --- p.124-125 / The Sexual Items ofKDQOL-SF --- p.125 / Appropriateness of Using HADS and Multiple Correlations --- p.126 / Implications of the Study Findings / Implications for nursing knowledge --- p.126-128 / Implications on the Nursing Practice --- p.128-130 / Recommendations for Further Research --- p.130-132 / Conclusion --- p.132-133 / Chapter 7 --- Reference --- p.134-146 / Chapter 8 --- Appendix --- p.147-179
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_326147 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Contributors | Luk, Pik Shan Yvonne., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Nursing. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, x, 179 leaves ; 30 cm. |
| Coverage | China, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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