The Biopsychosocial Adjustment of Liver Transplant Recipients and Its Correlated Factors
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Lin, Pin-hsuan
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze and investigate the biopsychosocial adjustment of liver transplant recipients, and the correlations between patients’ demographic data, characteristic of the disease, social support, self-care, and biopsychosocial adjustment. Between February 15, 2006 and May 30, 2006, 73 qualified participants were recruited for this cross-sectional and correlational study, from an organ transplant outpatient department at a medical center in northern Taiwan, using purposive sampling. With participant consent, data were collected with structured questionnaires assessing demographic data, characteristic of the disease, physical distress adjustment, psychosocial adjustment to illness scale (PAIS), social support scale, and self-care. Data were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS/Window12.0. Overall patient physical distress adjustment was above average, and the average PAIS score was 31.3. PAIS subscale wise, patients showed best adjustment in Family Relations, followed by Health Care, Domestic Environment, Psychological Distress, Social Environment, Sexual Relations, and Vocational Environment. There was significant correlation between patients’ physical distress adjustment and the presence of chronic diseases before transplant, social support, and self-perceived economic status, with the presence of chronic diseases before transplant being the main factor, accounting for 34% of the total variance. There was also significant correlation between patient’s psychosocial adjustment and the employment status after transplant, social support, and self-perceived economic status, with the employment status after transplant being the main factor, accounting for 54% of the total variance. The result of this study may help caregivers better understand liver transplant recipients’ biopsychosocial adjustment and its affecting factors, and provide as a reference for future intervention.
Subjects
肝臟移植
自我照護
liver transplant
biopsychosocial adjustment
social support
self-care
Type
other
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