Psychological adjustment after cardiac transplantation
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- DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1988.tb120532.x
Psychological adjustment after cardiac transplantation
Abstract
Cardiac transplantation is viable therapeutic alternative for patients with end-stage heart disease, which offers a favourable short- and medium-term prognosis. The survival has improved from 20% of patients who survived at one year after transplantation in the 1960s to the present figures of 80%-85% of patients who are alive at one year, and 50%-70% of patients who are alive at five years, after transplantation. Therefore, it seems timely to focus attention on the psychological well-being of cardiac-transplant recipients. The medical literature is scant in regard to the psychiatric and the psychosocial impact of cardiac transplantation on recipients, and a systematic and prospective study of the psychosocial adaptation of recipients is lacking. Since 1984, we have been studying the emotional impact of cardiac transplantation on recipients and their families. This article presents the results for a group of recipients who have been assessed before transplantation, then followed-up at discharge from hospital and at four, eight and 12 months after transplantation. The study attempted to quantitate the recipients' anxiety, depression, body image and subjective quality of life by way of standardized self-assessment questionnaires. The recipients' satisfaction with relationships or their marital situation also was reported, as were their degree of rehabilitation at 12 months and their attitudes to various aspects of treatment after the transplantation. Before the transplantation, 53% of patients reported an increase in anxiety and 34% of patients recorded scores that indicated mild-to-moderate levels of depression. Thirty-seven per cent of patients showed a deterioration in the quality of their lives and 34% of patients had a negative body image. After the transplantation, significant improvements occurred in all parameters, which were maintained at follow-up.
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