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  • Title: Psychosocial predictors of immune response following bone marrow transplantation.
    Author: Pulgar Á, Garrido S, Alcalá A, Reyes del Paso GA.
    Journal: Behav Med; 2012 Jan; 38(1):12-8. PubMed ID: 22356598.
    Abstract:
    This study analyzed the relationship between some psychosocial variables (depression, anxiety, stress, coping strategies, social support, optimism, rationality, and need for harmony) and clinical parameters indicative of immunological response after bone marrow transplantation (BMT; day of engraftment, number of infections and hemoglobin level) while controlling for demographic variables (age, educative level, civil state, and time from cancer diagnosis). Thirty-one post BMT hematological cancer patients were evaluated. Results show that higher educative levels are associated to lower number of infections, while age is associated with a delay in the time of engraftment; coping strategies, specially redefinition of the situation, relaxation, stoicism and passivity, are positively associated with the three clinical indices; depression is positively associated to number of infections during the hospitalization period; and rationality is associated with lower hemoglobin levels. These results suggest that psychosocial variables, especially coping strategies, play an important role in determining the immunological response after BMT.
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