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Psychosocial functioning of pediatric renal and liver transplant recipients
Author(s) -
Wu Yelena P.,
Aylward Brandon S.,
Steele Ric G.,
Maikranz Julie M.,
Dreyer Meredith L.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
pediatric transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1399-3046
pISSN - 1397-3142
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2007.00895.x
Subject(s) - psychosocial , medicine , transplantation , normative , population , organ transplantation , clinical psychology , kidney transplantation , liver transplantation , pediatrics , psychiatry , philosophy , environmental health , epistemology
The current study examined child‐ and parent‐reported child psychosocial functioning in a large sample of children who received solid organ transplantation. Participants included 64 children who received kidney or liver transplantation and 64 parents who completed a standardized measure of children’s psychosocial functioning (BASC; Reynolds & Kamphaus, 1992). Although post‐transplant children reported significantly fewer psychosocial difficulties than the normative average, parents reported that children had some psychosocial difficulties, particularly internalizing problems. There were no differences in psychosocial functioning between deceased donor organ and living donor organ recipients. Given the discrepancy between parent and child report, the results suggest that children may underreport psychosocial difficulties following transplantation or parents may over‐report children’s difficulties. Clinicians and researchers are encouraged to obtain assessment information from multiple reporters when assessing psychosocial functioning in this population.