Key result
Openness to experience, self-perceived support, and positive reinterpretation were associated with completing the 8-year follow-up after heart transplantation.
Why the study?
To investigate postoperative challenges after heart transplantation by determining which psychosocial and psychiatric variables relate to good prognosis and assessing cognitive status and quality of life at followup.
Do psychosocial and psychiatric variables relate to successful completion of an eight-year followup period in heart transplant patients?
Cohort
Do psychosocial and psychiatric variables relate to successful completion of an eight-year followup period in heart transplant patients?
Psychosocial factors, including personality traits and coping mechanisms, are significantly associated with successful long-term follow-up after heart transplantation.
These associations should not yet change practice; hypothesis-generating for targeted psychosocial support in transplant cohorts.
A heart transplantation (HT) is performed when a patient’s heart health has been severely compromised. However, the health care needs of a patient throughout the transplantation process are also significant. In order to investigate these postoperative heart transplant challenges, this study has two objectives: to find which psychosocial and psychiatric variables relate to good prognosis at the end of the followup period and to assess cognitive status and quality of life at the end of the study. Therefore, we divided the sample according to the completion success and then studied and compared the differences in participants’ personality, coping mechanisms, locus of control, clinical, and epidemiological information. Cognitive function and quality of life assessments were also undertaken for participants who completed their followup period. Higher significant differences were found in openness to experience (personality), self-perceived support (locus of control), and positive reinterpretation (coping) among those who completed the followup period. On the other hand, a higher age and current or historical psychiatric diagnoses were more prevalent in the group who did not complete the followup period. Our assessment of the participants after the followup period showed normal levels of cognitive function and quality of life.
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Téllez et al. (2021) conducted a cohort in Heart transplantation. Psychosocial and psychiatric variables vs. Patients who did not complete the follow-up period was evaluated on Completion of the follow-up period. Openness to experience, self-perceived support, and positive reinterpretation were associated with completing the 8-year follow-up after heart transplantation.
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