Effect of attribution training on early postoperative depression of kidney transplant recipients

Abstract

To investigate the early attributional style and postoperative depression of renal transplant recipients and to explore the effects of attribution training on depression of them. A total of 62 patients who underwent renal transplantation in the urological kidney transplantation ward from a comprehensive 3A hospital of Fujian Province, from December 2016 to February 2018, were randomly divided into two groups: intervention and control group. There were 31 patients in the intervention group who underwent routine renal transplantation combined with attribution training, while 31 patients in the control group received routine renal transplantation. Five instruments were applied to evaluate these two groups of patients which are the Basic Data Questionnaire, Depression Scale (SDS), Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Revised Piper Fatigue Scale (RPFS), Attribution Questionnaire (ASQ), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Attribution training can effectively improve patient’s attributional style, reduce depression, improve sleep quality and release fatigue. The early postoperative depression of renal transplant recipients is serious while Attribution Training can effectively improve depression, the sleep quality and fatigue, which solves the critical problems of clinical practice of kidney transplantation. Thus a strong basis for emotional problems improvement can be provided for renal transplant recipients.