Effects of Switching from Twice-Daily to Once-Daily Tacrolimus Formulation on Quality of Life, Anxiety, and Transplant Benefit Perception after Kidney Transplantation

Emotional self-efficacy and alexithymia may affect compliance, renal function and quality of life in kidney transplant recipients: Results from a preliminary cross-sectional study

“…States of negative affectivity may encourage behaviors harmful to health, contributing to the increase of creatinine levels, thus worsening renal function. It has been observed significant and positive correlations between emotional coping (measured as emotional expression and emotional processing) and compliance behaviors, in line with our sample of kidney transplant patients [2,3,5,6]. In previous studies on patients who had undergone an organ transplantation, alexithymia has often been related to psychosocial factors [11,12].…”

“…Many studies demonstrated the association between high alexithymia and low psychological health [6][7][8][9]; however, this is the first study that showed a relationship between alexithymia and compliance behavior. This important result could guide specific psychological treatment focused on alexithymic aspects of patients who have undergone kidney transplant in order to increase their compliance to immunosuppressive therapy [2,3,5,6]. It has been stated that patients affected by psychopathological conditions showed higher levels of alexithymia than control groups [6], but no studies investigated if alexithymia may affect compliance to immunosuppressive therapy.…”

“…c o m / l o c a t e / p h b include psychological factors in addition to traditional medical criteria with focused intervention in selected cases [2][3][4]. Nowadays, about 40% of the adult patients who had undergone kidney transplant show low compliance with immunosuppressive therapy, increasing the risk of graft rejection and poor mental and physical recovery [5]. Some researchers suggest that alexithymia may affect the health status of chronically ill patients [6].…”

Postoperative cognitive dysfunction after liver transplantation

“…Many factors may affect QoL after LT [66,67], including pretransplant psychological status, successful transplant, compliance to immunosuppressive treatment, recurrence of liver disease, anxiety about recurrence, inability to resume work with the ensuing economic restraints and changes in social relationships. It is difficult to establish the contribution of POCD to longterm QoL after LT, even if it remains an intriguing issue.…”

Attachment style predict compliance, quality of life and renal function in adult patients after kidney transplant: preliminary results

“…1 It is generally accepted that kidney transplant is the optimal treatment with better quality of life (QoL), reduced medical expenses and prolongation of life. 2 Approximately 40% of the adult kidney transplanted patients show low compliance to immunosuppressive therapy, increasing the risk of organ rejection 2 and poor recovery of mental and post-operative physical QoL. 3 Attachment theory, the medical-patient relationship, has increasingly been applied to understand disease and chronic illness.…”