• Title of article

    Depression Among Dialysis Patients Barriers to Good Care

  • Author/Authors

    Farrokhi, Farhat University of Toronto - Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, Canada

  • From page
    403
  • To page
    406
  • Abstract
    A patient on dialysis suffers from enormous burden of several somatic symptoms. These are sometimes accompanied with psychological distress; more than 70% have complaints about fatigue, nearly half of the patients experience anorexia and sleep disturbances, and one-fourth of them report ‘feeling down’ or ‘having no interest in doing things.
  • Journal title
    Iranian Journal of Kidney Diseases (IJKD)
  • Journal title
    Iranian Journal of Kidney Diseases (IJKD)
  • Record number

    2590174