Suffer from Dialysis as a Predictor of Mental Health Among Kidney Transplant Recipients: a Preliminary Longitudinal Study

Yaira Hamama-Raz; Menachem Ben-Ezra; Yael Tirosh; Roni Baruch; Richard Nakache

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Suffer from Dialysis as a Predictor of Mental Health Among Kidney Transplant Recipients: a Preliminary Longitudinal Study

Yaira Hamama-Raz, Menachem Ben-Ezra, Yael Tirosh, Roni Baruch, Richard Nakache

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Kidney transplant (KT) recipients are exposed to extreme physiological and psychological stressors, which make posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms a reasonable concern for this population. In this preliminary longitudinal study, we aimed to explore whether dialysis’s duration and level of suffering from dialysis contribute to the explained variance of post-transplant PTSD symptomatology among KT recipients. One hundred and four consecutive KT recipients (wave 1) were surveyed and approached again (wave 2, N = 61) with the same measurement tools. The results revealed that the main predictor of mental health incidents in wave 1 and wave 2 was suffering from dialysis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	879-883
Number of pages	5
Journal	Psychiatric Quarterly
Volume	88
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11126-017-9501-3
State	Published - 1 Dec 2017

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Dialysis
Kidney transplant recipients
PTSD symptomatology

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