Objective: to assess the psychosocial dimension of patients’ quality of life before and after a hepatic transplantation. Method: descriptive, cross-sectional study of quantitative approach, with 150 patients submitted to a liver transplantation being monitored from the sixth month, in the outpatient clinic of a reference center in hepatic transplantation. The data collection was carried out through an instrument with sociodemographic/clinical data and the Liver Disease Quality of Life questionnaire. The descriptive statistical analysis, Student’s t-test for comparison of domain means, and Games-Howell for multiple comparisons have been used. Results: there was improvement in the post-transplant quality of life in the four domains evaluated (<0.0001),with higher scores for the domains: health distress (55.5 vs 87.9) and stigma of hepatic disease (58.6 vs 93.7). Conclusion: the study has demonstrated that patients submitted to a liver transplantation had a significant improvement in the perception of quality of life regarding the psychosocial dimension, being more perceptive in the areas of health distress and stigma of hepatic disease.
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de Aguiar, M. I. F., Alves, N. P., Braga, V. A. B., e Souza, Â. M. A., Araújo, M. Â. M., & de Almeida, P. C. (2018). Psychosocial aspects of quality of life of hepatic transplant receivers. Texto e Contexto Enfermagem, 27(2). https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-070720180003730016
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