心臟移植者參與旅遊活動概況

An Overview of Heart Transplant Recipient Participation in Tourism Activities

目的：目前心臟移植手術已不是臨床研究，而是心臟衰竭末期患者救命與延長生命有效治療方式。然而，心臟移植病患手術後，因免疫抑制、排斥及感染之風險、併發症、藥物副作用之症狀困擾等狀況，旅遊活動受到限制。故本研究以心臟移植患者為主，希望藉由此研究瞭解國內心臟移植患者術後，從事旅遊活動之現況，以期心臟移植患者術後能回歸正常社交活動與生活。方法：本研究共收案18位心臟移植患者，以半結構問卷來收集資料，問卷包括三部分：（一）研究對象個人屬性資料（二）術前、術後參與旅遊活動比較（三）術後參與旅遊活動狀況等。結論：心臟移植患者術後並未因排斥的風險、擔心感染併發症及症狀困擾等問題，而不參與旅遊活動，且對未來參與旅遊活動意願度高。

Objective: Presently, heart transplant surgery is not only a clinical study, but also an effective life-saving and life-prolonging treatment of patients with heart failure. However, tourist activities of heart transplant recipients remain limited due to the risks of immune suppression, rejection, and infection, as well as complications and medication side effects, etc. Therefore, this research focuses on heart transplant recipients and aims to further understand the tourist activities of patients after receiving heart transplant surgery in order to provide them with some suggestions to resume their normal social life. Methods: This research is based on a total of 18 questionnaires collected from heart transplant recipients. The questionnaires are semi-structured and include three sections: (a)data of research targets' individual attributes; (b)comparison between the activities that patients participate in before and after surgery; ( c ) general observation of how they act in the activities after surgery. Conclusion: Risks of ejection infection and complications did not reduce the heart transplant recipients' willingness to participate in tourism activities. They are perfectly willing to join tourism activities in the future.