Abstract
Abstract A 34 item self-administered questionnaire designed to measure aspects of illness behaviour was completed by 30 patients undergoing long-term haemodialysis. A principal components analysis of the data yielded 8 factors (together accounting for 75% of the total variance) which were subjected to orthogonal rotation. The patterns of factor loadings suggested meaningful dimensions which were labelled: ‘helpless dependence’, ‘distressing preoccupation’, ‘openness vs concealment’, ‘paranoid non-involvement vs optimistic involvement’, ‘surrender vs fight’, ‘paranoid hostility to the illness as an enemy’, ‘illness as a non-attributable challenge’ and ‘lack of information about illness’. A comparison was made with an earlier study on a smaller group of patients and this revealed some encouraging similarities in the patterns of illness behaviour.
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