Until now there are few data in the literature describing psychiatric comorbidity in patients waiting for renal transplantation. We have conducted a cross sectional study estimating the prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders in three groups of renal transplant patients, before transplantation, six months and one year after. The MINI was used to estimate the prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorders. Anxiety and depressive symptoms were assessed using the HAD. Patients' quality of life was also assessed using the SF-36. This study did not find any major impact of renal transplantation on the prevalence of structured psychiatric disorders. Indeed, the prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders did not differ significantly between the three groups. The mean scores of anxiety did not differ significantly between the three groups in contrast to the mean scores of depression, which differed significantly between the group "before transplantation" and the group "one year after transplantation". We did not find any significant difference concerning the scores of patient's quality of life between the three groups, except for the item "health perceived by the patients themselves". Health perceived by the patients was greater in the group "after transplantation". The quality of life of dialysed or transplant patients was strongly correlated with anxiety and depressive symptoms scores, emphasizing the major interest of a multidisciplinary approach for these patients.

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