[Psychological health’s predictors of patients after bone marrow transplantation (BMT) 40 years of psychological researches of patients with blood cancers].

A study on the psychological health`s predictors of patents after BMT is presented. The theoretical base of researches is Helena Wrona- Polanska’s Functional Model of Health (FMH Wrona-Polańska 2003), in which health is a function of creative coping with stress. 110 patients after BMT - 64 males and 46 females – at the Hematology Clinic of Jagiellonian University of Collegium Medicum, were studied clinically. Examined methods were the questionnaires: Spielberger`s STAI, Endler`s, Parker`s CISS and CHIP, Antonovsky`s SOC-29, Rosenberg`s self-esteem scale, 10-point rating scales: of sense of health, sense of calm and sense of anxiety. Objective health was examined by physician on the 10-point rating scale. Cluster analysis to show psychological health`s predictors of patients after BMT: level of stress, styles and effective coping strategies with stress, personal resources, temporal factor since transplantation and gender. The psychological predictors of health are the base of health promotion of patients after BMT.