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The experience of a life-threatening medical condition requiring transplantation tests the adjustment capabilities and psychosocial resources of all patients and families. The course of transplantation has been described as a stage process by many researchers that generally include the diagnosis and decision-making stage, the waiting period, transplantation and hospitalization stage, and the follow-up and recovery period (Greene & Sears, 1994; Kuhn, Davis, & Lippman, 1988). Transplant candidates and families often must to simultaneously manage the current medical condition and prepare for both the possibility of transplant and the possibility of death. For example, previous research with heart transplantat candidates identified as many as 10 inter-related concerns for the patient, including finding out about needing a heart, having end-stage heart disease, having family members worry about them, managing illness symptoms, waiting for a donor heart to be found, uncertainty regarding the future, lack of energy for leisure, feeling worn out all of the time, decreased control over their lives, and dependence on others (Jalowiec, Grady, & White-Williams, 1994).
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Sears, S.F., Wallace, R.L. (2001). Spirituality, Coping, and Survival. In: Rodrigue, J.R. (eds) Biopsychosocial Perspectives on Transplantation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1333-9_9
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