Table 3.

Defense styles used by individual patients who had chosen in-centre hemodialysis (CHD) or peritoneal dialysis (PD)

	CHD N = 37	PD N = 21
Maladaptive action	11 (29.7%)	7 (33.3%)
Image-distorting	13 (35.1%)	3 (14.3%)a
Self-sacrificing	13 (35.1%)	4 (19.0%)
Adaptive	10 (27.0%)	12 (57.1%)b

Notes:

^aχ² = 4.29, df = 1, P = 0.038;

^bχ² = 4.52, df = 1, P = 0.033. Because some patients reported testing multiple defense styles, the sum of percentages in any column may exceed 100%.