Self-management of infection control behavior of adult recipients of living-donor liver transplantation within 5 years after transplantation.
This study determines the present condition of self-management of infection control behavior of adult recipients who underwent living-donor liver transplantation (LDLT). The design was a qualitative study using a semistructured interview. The subjects were recipients who underwent LDLT at Kyoto University Hospital within 5 years to March 2011 and gave their consents to participate in this study. The subjects were 10 recipients (4 male and 6 female), and their average age was 56.7 years. Of 502 sentences about self-management behavior extracted from the verbatim records of all subjects, 61 sentences were about infection control behavior. Cluster analysis was used to classify these sentences into 5 groups: basic preventive behavior, application preventive behavior, active preventive behavior, change of preventive behavior depending on physical condition, and establishment of preventive behavior.
University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Electronic address: arakawa.c@nurse.usp.ac.jp.
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Arakawa
Tenri Health Care University, Japan.
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Teraguchi
Kyoto University, Japan.
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Akazawa
Osaka Medical College, Japan.
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Nishizono
Sonoda Womens University, Japan.
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Yamamoto
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D019520:Living Donors; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012648:Self Care