Exploration Into Donor-Recipient Relationship After Living-Donor Liver Transplantation Using Gift-Exchange Theory.

Aim: This qualitative study aimed to explore the donor-recipient relationships following living-donor liver transplantation.

Method: A 1-time cross-sectional qualitative interview was conducted with liver transplant recipients ( = 17) and living liver donors ( = 11) post-transplant. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed manually by using thematic content analysis.

Factors Affecting Attitudes Toward Organ Donation in Health Care Professionals.

Background: Health care professionals can affect attitudes toward organ donation in society. The aim of this study was to examine health care professionals' attitudes toward and the affecting factors of organ donation.

Materials And Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted between June and September in 2018.

Undergraduate nursing students' experience related to their clinical learning environment and factors affecting to their clinical learning process.

Clinical education is an essential part of nursing education. The purpose of this study was to explore nurse students' experiences related to cinical learning environments, factors effecting to clinical learning process. Descriptive qualitative design was used in this study, and data were collected from 2nd class nursing student (n = 14).

Skin Cancer-Sun Knowledge and Sun Protection Behaviors of Liver Transplant Recipients in Turkey.

The aim of this study was to compare liver transplant recipients (LTRs) with the general population regarding their knowledge of skin cancer, sun health, sun protection behaviors, and affecting factors. This cross-sectional study was conducted in Turkey between March 2016 and September 2016 with 104 LTRs and 100 participants from the general population group (GPG). The mean age of the LTRs was 53.

Effects of a Support Group Intervention on Physical, Psychological, and Social Adaptation of Liver Transplant Recipients.

Objectives: Liver transplant recipients must adapt to a new life after transplant. We report the effects of a support group on physical and psychosocial adaptation of liver transplant recipients.

Materials And Methods: The study used a quasi-experimental design, comparing an intervention group and a control group.

Immunosuppressive Medication Adherence, Therapeutic Adherence, School Performance, Symptom Experience, and Depression Levels in Patients Having Undergone a Liver Transplant During Childhood.

Objectives: This study sought to investigate immunosuppressive medication adherence, therapeutic adherence, school performance, symptom experiences, and depression levels of patients having undergone liver transplant during childhood.

Materials And Methods: We performed a retrospective, cross-sectional, case-controlled study to compare the depression levels of subjects with those of their healthy peers. Data were collected between June 23, 2014, and July 10, 2014, from 0- to 18-year-old patients having undergone a liver transplant between 1996 and 2014 (n = 27; the participant's mean age, 17.

Validation and adaptation of the Modified Transplant Symptom Occurrence and Symptom Distress Scale-59 Items Revised into Turkish.

Context: The Modified Transplant Symptom Occurrence and Symptom Distress Scale-59 Items Revised (MTSOSD-59R) is a validated self-reported scale assessing patients' subjective experiences of adverse effects of immunosuppressants. It has been reported that the scale should be adapted and validated before it is used in patients of a different cultural (Brazilian, Dutch, German, French, Hindi, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish) background.

Objective: To validate and adapt the MTSOSD-59R for use in Turkish transplant recipients.

Investigation of adaptation after liver transplantation using Roy's Adaptation Model.

In this study we explored the adaptation of transplant recipients in Turkey using the Roy Adaptation Model. A descriptive qualitative design was used with data collected from liver transplant recipients in either individual or group interviews between May 2009 and February 2010. Using deductive content analysis, four themes were identified in the data: physiological mode, self-concept mode, role function mode, and interdependence mode.

Quality of life in recipients before and after liver transplantation in Turkey.

Context: Liver transplantation has become the treatment of choice for patients with end-stage liver disease. Most studies show a positive effect on quality of life after liver transplantation, but most studies are based on data from Western countries and little is known about quality of life in liver transplant recipients in Turkey or other developing countries.

Objective: To investigate liver transplant recipients' quality of life and factors affecting it, before and 3 months after transplantation in western Turkey.