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Restlessness and psychomotor agitation after kidney transplantation: their impact on perceived health status

(2008) Restlessness and psychomotor agitation after kidney transplantation: their impact on perceived health status. Psychol Health Med. pp. 249-56. ISSN 1354-8506 (Print) 1354-8506

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Official URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18350468

Abstract

Restlessness and psychomotor agitation are among the causes of morbidity and mortality in different diseases. They are known problems in end-stage renal disease patients but no study has ever evaluated their presence and effects in kidney recipients. This study aimed to explore the presence of restlessness and psychomotor agitation and their relation with morbidity of patients after renal transplantation. Sixty-one subjects were randomly selected from kidney transplant recipients being followed in Baqiyatallah Hospital, Tehran, Iran. Restlessness and psychomotor agitation were determined by Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). The correlation of these scores with demographic data, clinical data, sexual function, marital adjustment, quality of life, sleep quality and medical comorbidity of patients was evaluated. The scores of restlessness and psychomotor agitation were significantly correlated with the age at transplantation (r = .269, p = .04 and r = .324, p = .01, respectively), the total score of medical comorbidity (r = .273, p = .02 and r = .257, p = .04, respectively), role limitation due to emotional problems (r = -.26, p = .03 and r = -.25, p = .04, respectively) and mental health (r = -.277, p = .02 and r = -.252, p = .04 respectively). There was no correlation between these symptoms and the gender, marital status, and sexual relationship score of the patients (p > .05). Restlessness and psychomotor agitation are frequent and can impose high degrees of morbidity on renal transplant recipients. Proper management of these problems seems to improve the different aspects of quality of life in these patients.

Item Type: Article
Keywords: Adolescent Adult Aged *Attitude to Health Cross-Sectional Studies Female *Health Status Humans Kidney Transplantation/*psychology/*statistics & numerical data Male Middle Aged Psychomotor Agitation/diagnosis/*epidemiology/*etiology Surveys and Questionnaires
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Page Range: pp. 249-56
Journal or Publication Title: Psychol Health Med
Journal Index: Pubmed
Volume: 13
Number: 2
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/13548500701405517
ISSN: 1354-8506 (Print) 1354-8506
Depositing User: مهندس مهدی شریفی
URI: http://eprints.bmsu.ac.ir/id/eprint/2208

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