The effect of perceived social support on the psychosocial status of parents whose child had liver transplantation.

J Pediatr Nurs

Department of Child Health and Diseases Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, İnönü University, Malatya, Turkey.

Published: August 2022

Background: The aim of this study was to describe parental psychosocial outcomes following paediatric liver transplantation and the relationship between parental psychosocial outcomes and social support.

Method: This is a correlational, descriptive study conducted between April 2021 and October 2021 in the paediatric hepatology polyclinics of the liver transplantation institute of a university hospital. The SPSS 25 and AMOS 23 package programmes were used to perform data analyses.

Results: Data analysis revealed that the parents' social support level was low (44.6 ± 14.8), while their levels of trait anxiety (51.5 ± 4.8) and loneliness (48.5 ± 5.4) were high, and their depression level was moderate (26.4 ± 5.8). Established structural equation modelling demonstrated that the social support parents received had a significant effect on their levels of loneliness (β = -0.88; p < 0.001), trait anxiety (β = -0.37; p < 0.001), and depression (β = -0.44; p < 0.001).

Conclusion: The authors conclude that in parents of children who have had a liver transplant, increased levels of perceived social support result in decreased levels of anxiety, loneliness, and depression.

Practice Implications: The authors recommend that healthcare professionals can contribute to reducing the anxiety, loneliness and depression in parents of paediatric liver transplant recipients by strengthening their social support systems.

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