The Level of Satisfaction from Nursing Care and Social Support of Organ Transplant Patients

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Objective: It was planned to investigate the satisfaction levels of organ transplant patients in terms of social support andnursing care and also to determine the relation between these two items.Materials and Methods: The descriptive study was conducted with patients (n=140) who accepted to answer the researchquestions at a University Hospital Organ Transplantation Clinic. While collecting the data; question form related to identifying information of the patient, Newcastle Satisfaction with Nursing Scales and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived SocialSupport Questionnaire were used.Results: The mean age of the patients was 38.89±11.80. It was seen that 64.3% of patients were women, 73.6% liver transplants, 26.4% kidney transplants. Patients Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale mean score was 69.25±7.21,also experiences about Nursing Care Scale mean score was 75.41±2.27 and Nursing Satisfaction score mean score wasfound to be 71.73±3.05. There is no statistically significant correlation between Social Support Scale total score and nursingcare related experiences Scale total score (R=0.087, P=0.305) and Satisfaction Scale total score (r=0.012, p=0.891).Conclusion: Level of satisfaction from nursing care and social support of organ transplant patients were found to be at agood level.