Abstract
Forty-seven patients answered a questionnaire about stress, feelings of indebtedness toward the donor, and psychosocial adjustment following kidney transplantation. The combination of age, general life stress, and transplant-related stress explained 47% of the variance in psychosocial adjustment. Areas of adjustment most influenced by this combination of predictors included attitudes toward health care, domestic, vocational, social adjustment, and psychological distress. Younger patients endorsed higher levels of transplant-related stress and higher levels of psychological distress. Moderate to intense feelings of indebtedness toward the donor were common but were unrelated to psychosocial adjustment posttransplant.
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Achille, M.A., Ouellette, A., Fournier, S. et al. Impact of Transplant-Related Stressors and Feelings of Indebtedness on Psychosocial Adjustment Following Kidney Transplantation. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings 11, 63–73 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOCS.0000016271.10786.ee
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