Abstract
The authors studied 78 male and female patients awaiting a liver transplant. Psychiatric assessment included: clinical evaluation based on DSMIII-R criteria, plus the application of two psychopathological symptom scales (Brief Symptom Inventory and Montgomery-Asberg Depression Scale) and a coping modalities scale (Heim's BEFO). The latter is a new method for evaluating coping based on the use of 3 different categories of approach (action, cognition, emotional expression). 18 patients subsequently underwent liver transplantation. The authors attempt to describe the changes in the way these patients faced their disease and their evolution following prognostic variations (poor before transplantation and favourable afterwards).
| Translated title of the contribution | Changes in coping as a function of prognostic evolution: The situation in patients awaiting liver transplantation |
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| Original language | French |
| Pages (from-to) | 252-264 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Psychologie Medicale |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 1993 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- coping
- liver transplantation
- prognosis
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychiatry and Mental health