Psychosocial issues facing lung transplant candidates, recipients and family caregivers.
Although lung transplantation is an accepted treatment for many individuals with severe lung disease, transplant candidates and recipients experience a range of psychosocial stressors that begin at the initiation of the transplant evaluation and continue throughout patients' wait for donor lungs, their perioperative recovery, and their long-term adjustment to posttransplant life. Transplant programs should strive to incorporate evidence-based interventions that aim to improve physical functioning, psychological distress, global quality of life, and medical adherence as well as to integrate symptom management and palliative care strategies throughout the pre- and posttransplantation course.
Department of Clinical and Translational Science, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Emily M
EM
Rosenberger
Mary Amanda
MA
Dew
Andrea F
AF
DiMartini
Annette J
AJ
DeVito Dabbs
Roger D
RD
Yusen
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases; D016040:Lung Transplantation / Q000523:psychology*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000523:psychology; D018579:Patient Selection; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000523:psychology; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000523:psychology; D011788:Quality of Life; D014850:Waiting Lists