Predicting quality of life with a pretransplantation assessment battery: A prospective study of cardiac recipients.

This study provides descriptive data on the prevalence of symptoms and quality of life of cardiac transplantation recipients and tests the predictive validity of a pre-cardiac transplantation psychological assessment battery on posttransplantation quality of life. Following the formation of four cluster groups of pretransplantation MMPI profiles based on previous research, frequency analysis found that the cluster groups were not equally represented among cardiac recipients, such that the "Distressed/Confused" cluster had only one recipient member. Tests of significance among the three remaining cluster groups on the posttransplantation quality of life variables found no significant differences.