Examining the Performance of the MMPI-2-RF in a Sample of Pretransplant Military Veterans.

ABSTRACT: The present study aimed to describe the personality and psychopathology dimensions reported by veterans seeking organ transplantation, as well as to identify those dimensions associated with subsequent presurgical recommendations and transplant outcomes. Data were collected from 245 veterans undergoing a pretransplant psychological evaluation that included the MMPI-2-RF. Three treatment recommendations resulting from these evaluations, three recommendation adherence variables, and two transplant outcomes were extracted from electronic medical records. The sample's MMPI-2-RF scale scores were compared to the normative sample and two other presurgical samples and contrasted across subgroups defined by organ transplanted. Point-biserial correlations and logistic regression analyses examined a

SUBMITTER: Hintz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10185711 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature