Findings from the Psychiatric Impairments in

Purpose Depression/anxiety, impaired Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and coping and resil-ience structures, are associated with increased mortality/poor outcome in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients before (CKD/pre-KT) and after kidney (CKD-T) transplantation. Less is known about prevalence rates of psychiatric symptoms and impaired HRQoL of non-transplanted compared with transplanted patients. Methods In a cross-sectional study comparing 101 CKD/pre-KT patients with 151 cadaveric-trans-planted (CKD-T) patients, we examined prevalence of depression/anxiety (HADS question-naire) and coping, resilience and HRQoL (SF-12, Resilience-Scale and FKV-questionnaire). Results The prevalence of both depressive and anxiety symptoms was not significantly different between different pre-/and CKD-T patient groups. In CKD-T no significant relations of cop