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Sickness Symptoms in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Scoping Review.

Authors :
Sung, Choa
Hershberger, Patricia Ensweiler
Lockwood, Mark B.
Source :
Western Journal of Nursing Research. Apr2023, Vol. 45 Issue 4, p344-362. 19p.
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

Sickness symptoms (depressive symptoms, anxiety, and fatigue) are common among people with chronic illness, often presenting as a symptom cluster. Sickness symptoms persist in many patients with chronic kidney disease, even after kidney transplantation (KT); however, little is known about sickness symptom-induced burden in KT recipients. This scoping review synthesizes available evidence for sickness symptoms in KT recipients, including findings on symptom prevalence, predictors, outcomes, interrelationships, and clustering. Among 38 reviewed studies, none identified sickness symptoms as a cluster, but we observed interrelationships among the symptoms examined. Fatigue was the most prevalent sickness symptom, followed by anxiety and depressive symptoms. Predictors of these symptoms included demographic, clinical, and psychosocial factors, and health-related quality of life was the most researched outcome. Future research should use common data elements to phenotype sickness symptoms, include biological markers, and employ sophisticated statistical methods to identify potential clustering of sickness symptoms in KT recipients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
01939459
Volume :
45
Issue :
4
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Western Journal of Nursing Research
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
162431736
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1177/01939459221128125