1. Social Support, Sense of Coherence, and Self-Management among Hemodialysis Patients.
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Song, Yuan-yuan, Chen, Lin, Wang, Wen-xiu, Yang, Dong-ju, and Jiang, Xiao-lian
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STRUCTURAL equation modeling ,SOCIAL support ,SCIENTIFIC observation ,CONFIDENCE intervals ,SELF-management (Psychology) ,SELF-perception ,CROSS-sectional method ,TERTIARY care ,CRONBACH'S alpha ,SCALE analysis (Psychology) ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,CHI-squared test ,STATISTICAL sampling ,DATA analysis software - Abstract
Self-management is essential for patients who require regular hemodialysis treatment. This study aimed to explore the relationships between social support, sense of coherence (SOC), and self-management in hemodialysis patients and to examine whether SOC plays a mediating role. In a cross-sectional study, 402 hemodialysis patients from four tertiary hospitals were recruited. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Social support, SOC, and self-management were significantly correlated with each other. The proposed model provided a good fit to the data. Social support had a direct effect on self-management and SOC, partially mediated the effect of social support on self-management (β = 0.248, p = 0.001). Social support and SOC explained 69% of the variance in self-management. Our findings indicate that health care providers can enhance social support with an emphasis on strengthening SOC strategies to better improve self-management in hemodialysis patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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