تلخیص
Objective: To assess the relationship between Quality Of Life, Psychological Stress and Death Anxiety and impact of death anxiety and
stress on quality of life among Liver and Renal Transplant Recipients.
Study Design: Descriptive cross-sectional study.
Place and Duration: At Sheikh Zayed Hospital Lahore, in six month from 04th Oct 2016 to 30th March 2018.
Methodology: Three hundred pre-liver and renal transplantation recipient patients (68.7% males and 31.3%) female were assessed
on Quality of life scale, Death anxiety scale, and depression, anxiety and stress scale.
Results: Results revealed that stress significantly positively correlated with death anxiety (0.31) and with quality of life negative
correlation was found (-0.29). Quality of life significantly predicted by death anxiety and stress with variance of 25%, and 13%. Partial
mediation of death anxiety was found; results explained 32% variation of quality of life. The results showed that quality of life and
death anxiety was considerably different among liver and renal recipient patients. Level of stress was different among patients of
different age groups.
Conclusion: Stress and death anxiety deeply affect the quality of life among liver and renal transplant recipients.
Nighat Perveen, Iram Batool, Madiha Asghar, Ghazala Malik. (2019) Quality of life, psychological stress and death anxiety among liver and renal transplant recipients, Isra Medical Journal, Volume 11, Issue 2.
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