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Factors related to health locus of control among lung transplant candidates
Author(s) -
Burker Eileen J.,
Phillips Kristin M.,
Giza Mallory
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
clinical transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.918
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1399-0012
pISSN - 0902-0063
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2012.01614.x
Subject(s) - medicine , optimism , psychosocial , locus of control , anxiety , trait , explained variation , transplantation , clinical psychology , analysis of variance , lung transplantation , demography , psychiatry , developmental psychology , psychology , social psychology , machine learning , sociology , computer science , programming language
As the number of individuals pursuing lung transplantation to treat lung disease increases, transplant team members have an opportunity to maximize patients' chances for post‐transplant success through identifying and addressing psychosocial factors that have been previously associated with patients' post‐transplant survival, such as health locus of control ( HLC ). The purpose of this cross‐sectional study was to understand the factors associated with HLC in lung transplant candidates. The aims were to (i) identify the demographic factors associated with internal ( IHLC ), chance ( CHLC ), and powerful others ( PHLC ) HLC; (ii) examine the associations between HLC and anxiety, depression, and optimism; and (iii) determine whether these factors explain a significant proportion of variance in HLC . Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that age, education, trait anxiety, and optimism explained 20% of the variance in CHLC ; gender, trait anxiety, and depression accounted for 9% of the variance in IHLC ; and lower education accounted for 5% of the variance in PHLC . Helping transplant team members understand the factors that influence patients' perceptions that their own behaviors impact their health status is important for maximizing post‐transplant success.