[Changes in partner relationship after organ transplantation: comparison between heart, liver, and kidney transplantation] Psychotherapie, Psychosomatik, medizinische Psychologie [Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol] Journal article | | Title | [Changes in partner relationship after organ transplantation: comparison between heart, liver, and kidney transplantation] | | Author(s) | Laederach-Hofmann K, Bunzel B, Freundorfer E, Schubert MT | | Institution | Psychosomatik und Psychosoziale Medizin Inselspital, Universität Bern, Schweiz. laederach@insel.ch | | Source | Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol 2002 Jan; 52(1):5-15. | | MeSH | Adaptation, Psychological
Adult
Case-Control Studies
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Heart Transplantation
Humans
Kidney Transplantation
Liver Transplantation
Male
Marriage
Middle Aged
Personality Assessment
Prospective Studies
| | Abstract | AIM: This study was conducted to delineate partnership-relation functioning over time and specifically matched to various organs such as heart, liver, and kidney.
METHOD: Prospective, paralleled case-control-study including patients and their respective partners before and one year after organ transplantation in 23 heart-transplant recipients, 19 liver-transplant patients, and 16 kidney-transplant recipients. To assess partnership functioning, the FB-Z (family assessment measure) of Cierpka and Frevert was used. Statistics included descriptive methods, correlations, and analysis of variance including the items "organ" and "time".
RESULTS: Heart-transplant recipients and their partners show significant better overall measures in their partnership ratings (sum-value) in comparison to liver or kidney patients and their partners. In all patient and partner groups, except in kidney-transplant recipients a significant deterioration over time is discernible in the subscales role performance and emotionality. In respect to the item "organ" significant differences were found in overall functioning and the subscale communication where heart-transplant recipients and their partners have significant better functioning compared to kidney or liver transplant patients. In kidney patients and their partners only communication changes to the better in the time course.
CONCLUSION: In any organ transplantation the two sides of the coin are important to bear in mind, the one is the live-saving act of transplantation as such, the other is the important distress in the phase before but equally after the operation, mainly in the first year where patients and their respective partners have to be followed and treated even in respect to psychosocial and marital functioning. | | Language | ger | | Pub Type(s) | Comparative Study
English Abstract
Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 11805877 |
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