PMID- 32840173
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220221
LR  - 20230720
IS  - 1552-8456 (Electronic)
IS  - 0193-9459 (Print)
IS  - 0193-9459 (Linking)
VI  - 43
IP  - 6
DP  - 2021 Jun
TI  - Illness Uncertainty in Patients Awaiting Liver Transplant.
PG  - 509-516
LID - 10.1177/0193945920952059 [doi]
AB  - Illness uncertainty is prevalent in patients awaiting liver transplant. We 
      described high levels of illness uncertainty in these patients and examined 
      relationships between uncertainty and person factors and the antecedents of 
      uncertainty. Mishel uncertainty in illness scale was used to measure illness 
      uncertainty. We used modes and interquartile range (IQR) to describe illness 
      uncertainty levels in 115 patients. Multiple logistic and linear regression 
      models estimated the associations of uncertainty with hypothesized antecedents. 
      High total illness uncertainty score was reported by 15.6% of the patients. After 
      adjusting for all variables, illness uncertainty was associated with two 
      antecedents of uncertainty, low social well-being (OR = 0.816; p = .025) and low 
      self-efficacy (OR = 0.931; p = .013). Complexity was negatively associated with 
      social well-being; ambiguity and inconsistency were negatively associated with 
      self-efficacy. One in seven patients experienced high illness uncertainty. Social 
      well-being and self-efficacy were negatively related to illness uncertainty.
FAU - Bailey, Donald E Jr
AU  - Bailey DE Jr
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5678-8533
AD  - School of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
FAU - Yao, Jia
AU  - Yao J
AD  - Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research, Duke University, Durham, NC, 
      USA.
FAU - Yang, Qing
AU  - Yang Q
AD  - School of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
LA  - eng
GR  - P01 NR010948/NR/NINR NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
DEP - 20200825
PL  - United States
TA  - West J Nurs Res
JT  - Western journal of nursing research
JID - 7905435
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Liver Transplantation
MH  - Self Efficacy
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Uncertainty
PMC - PMC10354739
MID - NIHMS1906819
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - chronic disease
OT  - end-stage liver disease
OT  - illness uncertainty
OT  - transplants
COIS- Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The authors declared no potential conflicts 
      of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this 
      article.
EDAT- 2020/08/26 06:00
MHDA- 2022/02/22 06:00
PMCR- 2023/07/19
CRDT- 2020/08/26 06:00
PHST- 2020/08/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/02/22 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/08/26 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/07/19 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1177/0193945920952059 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - West J Nurs Res. 2021 Jun;43(6):509-516. doi: 10.1177/0193945920952059. Epub 2020 
      Aug 25.