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Inadequate immunosuppressive therapy causes rejection, whereas an overdose may lead to infections or malignancy to affect a patient's life and comfort. This study used a descriptive correlational design to determine how compliance with immunosuppressive therapy affected the well-being of liver transplant patients. The study was conducted in the liver transplant unit of a university hospital with 103 patients who underwent liver transplant surgery. The target population included patients who received treatment in liver transplant clinics between July 2016 and August 2017. Mean age of the patients in the study was 44.66 ± 14.86 years and the time after transplant was 15.48 ± 16.90 months on the average. A significant difference was found between mean General Comfort Scale scores according to the variable of adherence status (t = 6.898, p < .05). Simple linear regression analysis showed a positive moderate, significant correlation between the adherence variable and mean General Comfort Scale scores (R = 0.543, p < .001). It was found that the patients who adhered to immunosuppressive therapy experienced higher levels of comfort. Therefore, arrangements to improve patient adherence to therapy, hence comfort, are recommended, as well as periodic evaluations of patient comfort levels.

This research study was carried out as a descriptive and cross-sectional study to determine the relationship between anxiety and stress levels with quality of sleep in patients after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).The research population was composed of all of the adult patients who underwent surgery in these clinics. The sample of the study consisted of 98 patients who were selected from among these patients by using the non-random sampling method, who were able to communicate and volunteered to participate in the study. Personal Information Form, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) were used in data collection. The data analysis was performed with IBM SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) Statistics 16.It was determined that 34.7% of the patients were 55 years old and over, and 79.6% of them were male and 92.9% were married. It was found that patients were a poor quality of sleep. Patients' perceived stress and anxiety levels after liver transplantation were found to be moderate. It was determined that as the patients were increased anxiety level, their sleep quality decreased.Training programs should be planned to strengthen communication in order to increase the sleep quality of the patients and to reduce their anxiety levels.