Jill Pedley’s research while affiliated with Leicester College and other places

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Publications (3)


Coping with Home Dialysis
  • Article

February 1990

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7 Reads

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5 Citations

Human Relations

Jane Littlewood

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Pauline Hardiker

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Jill Pedley

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Debbie Olley

This paper describes and discusses the results of an exploratory and smallscale study of 20 renal patients treated by dialysis at home. The conceptual framework explored tasks and coping alongside the uncertainty, powerlessness, and scarcity experienced by people undergoing home dialysis. The range of coping strategies, styles of coping, and illness role which were adopted by the respondents, and the implications of these are examined in relation to theories of coping, defending, and adaptation.



Research in Progress: Tasks and coping in chronic renal failure

December 1984

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5 Reads

Citations (2)


... Adaptive tasks may vary according to disease characteristics, such as the availability of adequate treatment or the social response the disease evokes. This is demonstrated in studies on stressors which are typical for particular diseases, like cancer (Schag et al., 1990; DunkelSchetter et al., 1992), rheumatoid arthritis (Van Lankveld et al., 1993), Parkinson's disease and the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (De Ridder et al., 1998), renal disease (Littlewood et al., 1990), HIV-infection (Siegel and Krauss, 1991), or parents of children with chronic conditions (Canam, 1993). Some adaptive tasks will be highly specific for the disease under study, while others will be shared over various disease categories. ...

Reference:

Adaptive Tasks in Multiple Sclerosis: Development of an Instrument to Identify the Focus of Patients' Coping Efforts
Coping with Home Dialysis
  • Citing Article
  • February 1990

Human Relations

... 'Resisters' among chronic renal patients have been described as coping least well with dialysis, believing that symptoms are alleviated by acting as normally as possible and by not telling people. (Hardiker et al., 1984). Keeping busy and trying to ignore symptoms are central to this approach. ...

Coping with Chronic Renal Failure
  • Citing Article
  • January 1986

British Journal of Social Work