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Abstract
Background: Liver transplantation is now considered as the gold standard for treatment of patients with end-stage liver diseases and early liver tumors in cirrhotic livers. The recognition, management, and prevention of medical as well as surgical complications and comorbidities after liver transplant is the key to improve long term outcomes. The patient awareness about preparation to liver transplantation and their healthy practices is very low. It is important for liver transplant patients to understand the basic process involved with liver transplants. Aim: design health education booklet for patient undergoing liver transplantation surgery. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted on (105) patients undergoing liver transplantation admitted to Gastrointestinal Tract Hospital, Mansoura University, Egypt The study was conducted from the beginning of august till the end of January and 15 of experts participate in evaluating the designed health education booklet. Results: almost one third of hepatic patients were illiterate, more than half of them belonged to the middle socio economic level, participants showed poor score level of knowledge in relation feature and function of the liver, signs and symptoms of liver disease as well as definition, causes and indication of liver transplantation, signs of complication,number of meals that patient should had after disease and types of food that improve patient appetite, immunity and that replacement liver cells as well as physical activities and skin hygiene, ethics of donation, criteria of the recipient and donor as well as preparation steps for transplantation, examination before operation, steps of admission process and preoperative medication. Also patients had poor coping with disease appear in didn’t follow dietary style and almost of them stopped medications when felt better. Conclusion: The main conclusion drawn from the current study is that the majority of hepatic patients had poor score level of knowledge regarding liver transplantation and, poor coping with disease. Recommendations: It is recommended to apply health educational program to hepatic patients focusing on improving their knowledge about LT and healthy practice.