An Eight-Year Followup Study after Heart Transplantation: The Relevance of Psychosocial and Psychiatric Background
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Design
2.2. Sample
2.3. Procedure
- a.
- Ad hoc clinical, epidemiological, and psychosocial form with medical and mental health history.
- b.
- c.
- Five-Factor Inventory, Revised Edition (NEO-PI-R), a self-reported 60-item questionnaire measuring extraversion, neuroticism, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. The Spanish validation of the inventory was used [9].
- d.
- The Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC), a self-reported 18-item Likert questionnaire with answers ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 6 (strongly agree). This test assesses a person’s agency level in a variety of attributional styles. A “condition-specific” version of this questionnaire was used because it is suited to people with medical diseases. Those items can be applied to different topics: doctors, high-status people, chance, and internality. The Spanish adaptation of the questionnaire was used [10,11]
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- Coping questionnaire (COPE), a 60-item self-reported questionnaire that assesses different ways of coping with problems and stress. Normally, COPE has 15 scales, but Gutiérrez et al. (2007) obtained three robust and generalizable second-order dimensions: engagement, disengagement, and help seeking. These scales were used in our study. The Spanish validation of the questionnaire was used [12,13].
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- g.
- The Spanish version of a family functioning questionnaire (APGAR). This questionnaire can be administrated by a health-care professional or be self-reported. It has five Likert items and assesses the perception of the patient of their family functioning. The total score ranges from 1 (severe family dysfunction) to 10 (totally functional) [16].
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- The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). This screening is administrated by a health-care professional and indicates the current severity of cognitive impairment. The normality cutoff is 27 points. The Spanish validation of the questionnaire was used [17].
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- EuroQol-5D, a questionnaire that can be administrated by a health-care professional or be self-reported. It has five item dimensions: mobility, self-care, daily activities, pain, and mood. Additionally, it has one scale that estimates self-health perception status from 0, the worst, to 100, the best. The Spanish version of the questionnaire was used [18].
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
Limitations
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | Mean ± Standard Deviation (Range) | Statistics | |
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Followup completed (n = 25) | Followup NOT completed (n = 53) | ||
Mean followup time (months) | 99.24 ± 27.29 | 82 ± 45.96 (n = 6) | p = 0.364 |
Age (years) | 53 ± 8.5 (37–67) | 57 ± 9.15 (30–72) | p = 0.037 * |
Gender (% male) | 72 (18) | 79.24 (42) | p = 0.478 V Cramer: 0.08 |
Age of onset of illness (years) | 42.08 ± 9.57 (23–58) | 46.32 ± 11.78 (9–64) | p = 0.072 |
Cardiac disease duration (years) | 10.96 ± 9.44 (0–42) | 11.53 ± 7.93 (0–31) | p = 0.509 |
Weight (Kg) | 70.76 ± 15.02 (48–100) | 72.83 ± 13.36 (49–104) | p = 0.496 |
Height (m) | 167 ± 9.3 (149–192) | 165 ± 8.4 (149–190) | p = 0.541 |
Body mass index (BMI) | 25 ± 3.8 (18.29–32.27) | 26.4 ± 3.94 (19.5–36.21) | p = 0.179 |
Prior cardiac surgery (%) | 32 (8) | 30.76 (16) | p = 0.952 V Cramer: 0.007 |
Creatinine | 1.43 ± 1.09 (0.7–6.5) | 1.2 ± 1.2 (0.7–2.2) | p = 0.486 |
Employment status | Percentage (n) | ||
Pensioner | 52 (13) | 62.26 (33) | p = 0.637 V Cramer = 0.149 |
Active | 24 (6) | 11.32 (6) | |
Temporal disability | 12 (3) | 9.43 (5) | |
Other | 12 (3) | 15 (9) | |
Pretransplant cardiac diagnosis | Percentage (n) | ||
Dilated cardiomyopathy | 28 (7) | 24.52 (13) | p = 0.706 V Cramer = 0.285 |
Valvular cardiomyopathy | 4 (1) | 11.32 (6) | |
Ischemic cardiomyopathy | 44 (11) | 41.5 (22) | |
Congenital heart disease | 0 (0) | 3.77 (2) | |
Nonischemic cardiomyopathy | 28 (6) | 18.86 (10) | |
Psychiatric diagnosis | Percentage (n) | ||
History of psychiatric diagnosis | |||
With psychiatric diagnosis | 20 (5) | 49 (26) | p = 0.038 * V Cramer: 0.41 |
Without psychiatric diagnosis | 80 (20) | 51 (27) | |
Family history of psychiatric diagnosis | |||
With familiar diagnosis | 24 (6) | 18.86 (10) | p = 0.48 V Cramer: 0.24 |
Without familiar diagnosis | 76 (19) | 81.13 (43) | |
Current psychiatric diagnosis | |||
Depressive disorder | 0 (0) | 15 (8) | p = 0.032 * V Cramer: 0.36 |
Anxiety disorder | 16 (4) | 3.77 (2) | |
Sleep disorder | 4 (1) | 13.2 (7) | |
Personality disorder | 4 (1) | 1.88 (1) | |
None | 76 (19) | 66 (35) | |
HADS | |||
Global | 11.66 ± 6.71 | 10.84 ± 5.63 | p = 0.442 |
Depression | 5.25 ± 3.5 | 4.78 ± 3.11 | p = 0.446 |
Anxiety | 6.41 ± 3.83 | 6.0 ± 3.27 | p = 0.676 |
APGAR | 8.95 ± 1.91 | 9.20 ± 1.5 | p = 0.726 |
Test | Followup Completed | Followup Incomplete | p-Value |
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NEO-PI-R | |||
Neuroticism | 27.71 ± 9.4 | 19.86 ± 6.69 | 0.197 |
Extraversion | 29.19 ± 6.55 | 27.51 ± 6.01 | 0.337 |
Openness to experience | 33.19 ± 7.01 | 27.73 ± 6.45 | 0.007 * |
Agreeableness | 35.00 ± 8.14 | 33.92 ± 4.75 | 0.390 |
Conscientiousness | 36.66 ± 6.2 | 34.21 ± 6.09 | 0.188 |
Locus of control (MHLC) | |||
Self-perceived support | 1.25 ± 0.53 | 1.05 ± 0.23 | p-value: <0.001 * V Cramer: 0.571 |
Professional-perceived support | 1.17 ± 0.49 | 1.17 ± 0.47 | |
COPE scales | |||
Engagement | 66.42 ± 14.66 | 62.13 ± 12.47 | 0.150 |
Acceptance | 81.33 ± 20.17 | 77.06 ± 16.27 | 0.211 |
Positive reinterpretation | 81.00 ± 20.82 | 71.45 ± 16.82 | 0.034 * |
Active coping | 62.28 ± 14.30 | 62.90 ± 20.33 | 0.904 |
Planning | 64.33 ± 21.70 | 55.11 ± 23.63 | 0.074 |
Restraint coping | 56.76 ± 28.24 | 55.84 ± 20.44 | 0.767 |
Suppression of competing activities | 52.81 ± 17.14 | 50.40 ± 19.04 | 0.787 |
Help seeking | 55.25 ± 15.11 | 53.909 ± 15.68 | 0.933 |
Seeking emotional support | 59.47 ± 24.20 | 60.38 ± 21.88 | 0.866 |
Seeking instrumental support | 63.52 ± 19.78 | 60.63 ± 25.68 | 0.932 |
Venting emotions | 42.76 ± 21.99 | 40.70 ± 19.15 | 0.765 |
Disengagement | 30.15 ± 16.15 | 33.38 ± 14.53 | 0.388 |
Mental disengagement | 66.42 ± 14.66 | 62.13 ± 12.47 | 0.105 |
Behavioral disengagement | 30.16 ± 16.15 | 33.38 ± 14.53 | 0.275 |
Denial | 20.61 ± 20.31 | 24.22 ± 17.82 | 0.270 |
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Téllez, R.; Sánchez-González, R.; Cámara, M.; Cuñat, O.; del Hoyo-Buxo, B.; Farrero, M.; Castel, M.A.; López, H.; Pintor, L. An Eight-Year Followup Study after Heart Transplantation: The Relevance of Psychosocial and Psychiatric Background. Transplantology 2021, 2, 491-499. https://doi.org/10.3390/transplantology2040046
Téllez R, Sánchez-González R, Cámara M, Cuñat O, del Hoyo-Buxo B, Farrero M, Castel MA, López H, Pintor L. An Eight-Year Followup Study after Heart Transplantation: The Relevance of Psychosocial and Psychiatric Background. Transplantology. 2021; 2(4):491-499. https://doi.org/10.3390/transplantology2040046
Chicago/Turabian StyleTéllez, Rubén, Roberto Sánchez-González, Mercè Cámara, Oriol Cuñat, Blanca del Hoyo-Buxo, Marta Farrero, Maria Angeles Castel, Hugo López, and Luis Pintor. 2021. "An Eight-Year Followup Study after Heart Transplantation: The Relevance of Psychosocial and Psychiatric Background" Transplantology 2, no. 4: 491-499. https://doi.org/10.3390/transplantology2040046