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abstract

  • This paper describes the functioning patterns of twenty families with one member on home dialysis. It also includes a description of task accomplishment, role performance, communication, affective involvement and control. It reports some findings related to marital satisfaction from a retrospective study of 291 home dialysis patients and their spouses in sixteen Ontario centres.

publication date

  • October 22, 1982