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

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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.

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  1. School of Social Work, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel

    Yaira Hamama-Raz & Menachem Ben-Ezra

  2. Transplantation Unit, Department of Surgery, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Affiliated to Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Yael Tirosh, Roni Baruch & Richard Nakache

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All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation - Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.

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Hamama-Raz, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Tirosh, Y. et al. Suffer from Dialysis as a Predictor of Mental Health Among Kidney Transplant Recipients: a Preliminary Longitudinal Study. Psychiatr Q 88, 879–883 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11126-017-9501-3

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