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Psychosocial recovery from adult kidney transplantation: a literature review
Author(s) -
WAINWRIGHT STEVEN P.,
FALLON MAUREEN,
GOULD DINAH
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2702.1999.00220.x
Subject(s) - psychosocial , coping (psychology) , medicine , transplantation , quality of life (healthcare) , rehabilitation , kidney transplantation , kidney disease , multidisciplinary approach , intensive care medicine , intervention (counseling) , physical therapy , psychiatry , nursing , surgery , social science , sociology
• Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for patients with end‐stage chronic renal disease. • There appears to be no recent and extensive review of the literature on psychosocial recovery from adult kidney transplantation. • This comprehensive review considers literature on six aspects of patient recovery and rehabilitation: psychiatric sequelae, functional recovery, stress and coping, the psychological impact of failed kidney transplants, quality of life (QOL), and adherence with medications. • We conclude that although studies have become both more ambitious and rigorous, there is a pressing need to move away from descriptive research toward carefully designed multidisciplinary psychological intervention studies with kidney transplant patients.