“…In an effort to provide appropriate comparison groups within organ systems, normative data on commonly used measures of cognitive functioning, affective status, psychosocial adjustment, coping, quality of life, and life satisfaction have recently been published for liver, cardiac, kidney, and bone marrow transplant candidates (Baker, Marcellus, Zabora, Polland, & Jodrey, 1997; DeShields, McDonough, Mannen, & Miller, 1996; Greco, Brickman, & Routh, 1996; Hecker, Norvell, & Hills, 1989; Putzke et al, 1997; Sears, Rodrigue, Sirois, Urizar, & Perri, 1999; Streisand et al, 1999; Trzepacz, Brenner, & Van Thiel, 1989; Triffaux et al, 2001). Although the movement toward establishing normative databases for the assessment of transplant candidates is promising, wide variation exists in the types of instruments used to assess the different domains of functioning in adults (Mori, Klein, & Gallagher, 1999; Riether, Lewison, & Cohen-Cole, 1992) and there is a pressing need to study the differential aspects of pretransplant evaluation in pediatric and adolescent patients (Shaw & Taussig, 1999).…”