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Baranyi, A; Krauseneck, T; Rothenhäusler, HB.
Overall mental distress and health-related quality of life after solid-organ transplantation: results from a retrospective follow-up study.
Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2013; 11(3):15-15
Doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-11-15
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- Baranyi Andreas
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- Rothenhäusler Hans-Bernd
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- Abstract:
- Our retrospective follow-up study aimed to explore the degree of overall mental distress in a cohort of solid-organ transplantation (SOT) recipients after liver, heart or lung transplantation. Furthermore, we investigated how overall mental distress is linked to health-related quality of life. 123 SOT patients treated during the study period were enrolled in this investigation at a mean of 24.6 months (SD=11.6) after transplantation. Before transplantation, the Transplant Evaluation Rating Scale (TERS) was used to classify the level of adjustment in psychosocial functioning among transplantation candidates. After transplantation, recipients completed a research battery, which included the SCL-90-R, and the SF-36. 39 (31.7%) transplantation recipients had clinically significant overall mental distress as measured on the Global Severity Index of the SCL-90-R. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms (92.3%), somatization symptoms (87.2%), anxiety symptoms (84.6%), depression symptoms (82.1%) and phobic anxiety symptoms (69.2%) were a frequent finding.Transplantation recipients with overall mental distress had significant lower levels of adjustment in psychosocial functioning before transaplantation than those without overall mental distress as measured in the TERS. Transplantation-related overall mental distress symptomatology was associated with maximal decrements in health-related quality of life. Transplantation recipients may face major transplantation- and treatment-related overall mental distress and impairments to their health-related quality of life. Further, overall mental distress is a high-risk factor in intensifying impairments to patients' overall quality of life.
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- Female -
- Follow-Up Studies -
- Heart Transplantation - adverse effects
- Humans -
- Liver Transplantation - adverse effects
- Lung Transplantation - adverse effects
- Male -
- Middle Aged -
- Organ Transplantation - adverse effects
- Psychometrics -
- Quality of Life - psychology
- Retrospective Studies -
- Severity of Illness Index -
- Stress, Psychological - diagnosis
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- Solid-organ transplantation
- Overall mental distress
- Health-related quality of life