Medicine-taking among transplant recipients is a complex and ubiquitous task with
significant impacts on outcomes. This study aimed to describe the perspectives and …

Aims To analyse the aspects involved in the care of individuals assessed as kidney
transplant candidates and to identify the role of nurses in providing specialised care for this …

Background Understanding the behaviours that facilitate or impede one's ability to self-
manage is important to improve health-related outcomes in kidney transplant recipients …

Background No research has yet been done on social support's influence on the association
between illness perception and psychosocial adaptation among young and middle-aged …

Background To support effective self-management after kidney transplantation, a holistic
nurse-led self-management support intervention was developed using the Intervention …

Self-management is essential for patients who require regular hemodialysis treatment. This
study aimed to explore the relationships between social support, sense of coherence (SOC) …

Objectives To explore the multiple mediating roles of the learned helplessness's core system
in the relationship between health literacy/social support and self-management. Design …

Objective Psychological distress is common among patients with chronic kidney disease
and can interfere with disease self-management. We assessed the effectiveness of the …

Objective To explore why transplant patients experience unexpected mild-to-moderate
distress and what support they may need. Design Qualitative study using individual in-depth …

Objective To develop a self-management instrument for organ transplant recipients that
incorporates self-regulations skills and to determine its measurement properties. Methods …