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Fear of COVID 19 and social effects in liver transplant patients
BACKGROUND: This study was descriptively conducted to evaluate the fear of COVID 19 and its social effects on patients who had liver transplant. METHODS: The study was conducted between September 2020 and April 2021 in a liver transplant institute affiliated with a university hospital. The sample of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8494991/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34626805 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trim.2021.101479 |
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author | DOĞAN, Runida KAPLAN SERİN, Emine BAĞCI, Nazlıcan |
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description | BACKGROUND: This study was descriptively conducted to evaluate the fear of COVID 19 and its social effects on patients who had liver transplant. METHODS: The study was conducted between September 2020 and April 2021 in a liver transplant institute affiliated with a university hospital. The sample of the study was 135 patients. Personal Information Form, Fear of Covid 19 Scale, and Questionnaire of Social Impact of COVID 19 Pandemic were used to collect data. RESULTS: It was determined that the Fear of Covid 19 Scale mean score of the patients was 21.25 ± 6.99. As the fear of COVID 19 increases in patients who had liver transplant, it was determined that their desire to be in crowded environments, to prefer public transportation, to go to the doctor for examination and their focusing on various objectives were decreasing. Also, fear of COVID 19 increased the difficulty in sleep, storage of food and cleaning materials, washing hands frequently, using masks and gloves when going out, health concerns, doubts about disease symptoms, orientation towards healthy eating, worries about the future and questioning the meaning of life. CONCLUSION: The results show that it is important for transplant centers to be able to provide guidance and psychological counseling services to liver transplant patients, who are significantly affected by COVID 19, through telemedicine or various technological opportunities. |
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spelling | pubmed-84949912021-10-08 Fear of COVID 19 and social effects in liver transplant patients DOĞAN, Runida KAPLAN SERİN, Emine BAĞCI, Nazlıcan Transpl Immunol Research Article BACKGROUND: This study was descriptively conducted to evaluate the fear of COVID 19 and its social effects on patients who had liver transplant. METHODS: The study was conducted between September 2020 and April 2021 in a liver transplant institute affiliated with a university hospital. The sample of the study was 135 patients. Personal Information Form, Fear of Covid 19 Scale, and Questionnaire of Social Impact of COVID 19 Pandemic were used to collect data. RESULTS: It was determined that the Fear of Covid 19 Scale mean score of the patients was 21.25 ± 6.99. As the fear of COVID 19 increases in patients who had liver transplant, it was determined that their desire to be in crowded environments, to prefer public transportation, to go to the doctor for examination and their focusing on various objectives were decreasing. Also, fear of COVID 19 increased the difficulty in sleep, storage of food and cleaning materials, washing hands frequently, using masks and gloves when going out, health concerns, doubts about disease symptoms, orientation towards healthy eating, worries about the future and questioning the meaning of life. CONCLUSION: The results show that it is important for transplant centers to be able to provide guidance and psychological counseling services to liver transplant patients, who are significantly affected by COVID 19, through telemedicine or various technological opportunities. Elsevier B.V. 2021-12 2021-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8494991/ /pubmed/34626805 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trim.2021.101479 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Research Article DOĞAN, Runida KAPLAN SERİN, Emine BAĞCI, Nazlıcan Fear of COVID 19 and social effects in liver transplant patients |
title | Fear of COVID 19 and social effects in liver transplant patients |
title_full | Fear of COVID 19 and social effects in liver transplant patients |
title_fullStr | Fear of COVID 19 and social effects in liver transplant patients |
title_full_unstemmed | Fear of COVID 19 and social effects in liver transplant patients |
title_short | Fear of COVID 19 and social effects in liver transplant patients |
title_sort | fear of covid 19 and social effects in liver transplant patients |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8494991/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34626805 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trim.2021.101479 |
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