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Current status of psychological research in organ transplantation

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Research addressing the psychological concomitants of organ transplantation is reviewed. Specifically, cognitive, behavioral, and psychosocial correlates of kidney, heart, liver, and bone marrow transplantation in both children and adults are discussed. Despite several conceptual and methodological shortcomings of the psychologically-based research in this area, results seem to indicate that organ transplantation is associated with many psychological issues at pretransplantation, posttransplantation, and follow-up periods. Implications of these general findings for the advancing roles of the health psychologist in organ transplantation are discussed.

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Rodrigue, J.R., Greene, A.F. & Boggs, S.R. Current status of psychological research in organ transplantation. J Clin Psychol Med Settings 1, 41–70 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01991724

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