The Psychosocial Evaluation of the Patient Candidate for Liver Transplantation at ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII in Bergamo With the Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplants

Alessandra Merisio; Aida Niang; Luisa Pasulo; Filippo Leonardi; Domenico Pinelli; Stefano Fagiuoli; Maria Simonetta Spada

doi:10.1016/j.transproceed.2025.05.002

The Psychosocial Evaluation of the Patient Candidate for Liver Transplantation at ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII in Bergamo With the Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplants

Transplant Proc. 2025 Jun 12:S0041-1345(25)00237-4. doi: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2025.05.002. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Alessandra Merisio¹, Aida Niang², Luisa Pasulo³, Filippo Leonardi³, Domenico Pinelli⁴, Stefano Fagiuoli³, Maria Simonetta Spada²

Affiliations

¹ Psychology Unit, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy. Electronic address: amerisio@asst-pg23.it.
² Psychology Unit, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy.
³ Gastroenterology Hepatology and Transplantation Unit, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII , Bergamo, Italy.
⁴ General Surgery.-Abdominal Transplants, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy.

PMID: 40514246
DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2025.05.002

Abstract

The Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplant is a standardized psychosocial assessment recently used at ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII for the assessment of patients under evaluation for liver transplant. Currently, we are presenting a qualitative analysis of the initial group of patients under evaluation with this model. Our goal is to expand the analysis to all our patient population, and therefore to proceed with a quantitative analysis of the variables monitored: incidence of pre-liver transplant risk factors, comorbidities with or without other psychiatric disorders, presence/absence of alcohol and/or substance use disorders, social background, and neuropsychological screening.