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Findings from Sun Yat-Sen University broaden understanding of dialysis.

Women's Health Weekly

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"The study investigated whether gender differences in the stressor, coping strategies, and how they associate stress and copings among 875 elderly patients undergoing hemodialysis in Taiwan," scientists in Kaohsiung, Taiwan report (see also Dialysis).

"Chi-square tests, MANOVA and Structural Equation Modeling were used to attain the research purposes. The results found that the women had reported higher stress in response to physical and vessel problems and higher scores in using emotion-oriented and support-seeking coping strategies, while the men reported higher stress in reproductive system functioning and higher score in using avoidance as a coping strategy," wrote S.C.J. Yeh and colleagues, Sun Yat-Sen University.

The researchers concluded: "Furthermore, the results from SEM demonstrated that after controlling for patient ...

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