What is it about?
Being a heart transplant recipient means live with uncertainty as for al of us. But this major life event changes your former sence of coherens and you can no longer interpret your situation or body. The recipients must learn to accept the uncertainty as a part of life. If they don't this will cause distress and anxiety that is intrusive and might prolong the recovery.
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Why is it important?
About 32% of the heart transplant recipients suffer from distress. This sudy suggest that uncertainty might be the source to distress after heart transplantation. It also gives us a new perspective for the follow-up after heart transplantation were the health care professionals can guide and support the recipients in accepting uncertainty. this might help the recipients lower their distress and anxiety.
Perspectives
This study gives us the patients own perspecitive of what is means to have a new heart. And by understanding their point of view we can easier guide the recipients thru their recovery after the transplantation. The health care professionals and the patients does not always have the same use of what is important.
PhD student, R.N Matilda Almgren
Lunds Universitet
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This page is a summary of: The meaning of being in uncertainty after heart transplantation – an unrevealed source to distress, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, July 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1474515116648240.
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