Psychosocial Risk Predicts New Episode Depression After Heart Transplant

Psychosocial assessment is an essential component of the pretransplant evaluation. Many individuals have significant psychosocial problems, and they are either denied for transplantation or deferred from listing and transplant until the psychosocial issues are addressed. The primary aim of this stud...

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Published in:Psychosomatics (Washington, D.C.) D.C.), 2019-01, Vol.60 (1), p.47-55
Main Authors: Schneekloth, Terry D., Hitschfeld, Mario J., Jowsey-Gregoire, Sheila G., Petterson, Tanya M., Dunlay, Shannon M., Niazi, Shehzad K., Vasquez, Adriana R., Rummans, Teresa A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Anxiety - epidemiology
Anxiety - psychology
Cohort Studies
Depression
Depression - epidemiology
Depression - psychology
Depressive Disorder - epidemiology
Depressive Disorder - psychology
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Graft Rejection - epidemiology
Heart transplantation
Heart Transplantation - psychology
Humans
Kaplan-Meier Estimate
Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data
Linear Models
Logistic Models
Male
Middle Aged
Outcome assessment
Proportional Hazards Models
Psychology
Psychosocial assessment
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Survival Rate
Transplantation
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Summary:Psychosocial assessment is an essential component of the pretransplant evaluation. Many individuals have significant psychosocial problems, and they are either denied for transplantation or deferred from listing and transplant until the psychosocial issues are addressed. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of patients who initially had significant psychosocial problems, but who addressed them and received a heart transplant. This retrospective study included heart transplant recipients from 1/1/2000 to 12/31/2012. Those with initial Psychosocial Assessment of Candidates for Transplantation (PACT) scale score
ISSN:0033-3182
1545-7206
DOI:10.1016/j.psym.2018.06.003