Status and factors related to post-traumatic growth in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis: A multi-centre study.
Xing Li, Xueli Zhou, Dengyan Ma and 17 others
PMID 34658140WHAT IT FOUND
Average post-traumatic growth score was 57.36 out of 100.
Higher stress scores were weakly linked to higher growth scores, but burden was not linked to overall growth.
Key findings
01The average post-traumatic growth score was 57.36 out of 100.
02Total self-perceived stress was weakly associated with post-traumatic growth (r = 0.125).
03Total self-perceived burden was not associated with total growth, but burden was associated with the new possibilities subscale (p = .012).
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What it does not show
The study was cross-sectional, so it cannot show whether stress, burden, work, or education cause growth, or how growth changes after starting dialysis. The analysis did not consider the effect of the dialysis treatment method on patients' psychology. People with severe cognitive impairment, functional or organic mental disease, serious uraemia complications, or haemodialysis or continuous renal replacement in the past three months were excluded, so the findings do not cover those groups. A large share of participants came from one hospital (289 of 752, 38.4%), so the sample may not represent all 44 centres.
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The supplied text does not include an author conflict-of-interest or funding statement. The publication type lists research support from a non-U.S. government source.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that reducing stress will increase post-traumatic growth. This was a cross-sectional questionnaire study, so it cannot show cause, and the stress-growth link was weak.