title: Psychiatric and psychosocial predictors of medical outcome after liver transplantation: a prospective, single-center study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Recognizing the potential impact of psychiatric and psychosocial factors on liver transplant patient outcomes is essential to apply special follow-up for more vulnerable patients. The aim of this article was to investigate the psychiatric and psychosocial factors predicted medical outcomes of liver transplanted patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  We studied 150 consecutive transplant candidates, attending our outpatient transplantation clinic, including 84 who had been grafted 11 of whom died and 3 retransplanted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We observed that active coping was an important predictor of length of stay after liver transplantation. Neuroticism and social support were important predictors of mortality after liver transplantation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It may be useful to identify patients with low scores for active coping and for social support and high scores for neuroticism to design special modes of follow-up to improve their medical outcomes.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Approach to Liver Transplanted Patients' Unit of Curry Cabral Hospital's Liver Transplantation Centre, Lisbon, Portugal. tellesdiogo@gmail.com
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Telles-Correia
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Barbosa
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mega
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Barroso
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Monteiro
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012944:Social Support; D016896:Treatment Outcome