Articles: intensive-care-psychology.
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Oct 2013
Multicenter Study Comparative StudySepsis patients do not differ in health-related quality of life compared with other ICU patients.
The aim of the present multicentre study is to assess health-related quality of life in patients with community-acquired sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock (CAS) 6 months after discharge from the intensive care unit (ICU) and to compare the health-related quality of life of the ICU survivors with CAS with ICU survivors with other ICU diagnoses. ⋯ Patients admitted to ICU for CAS did not perceived different health-related quality of life compared with ICU patients admitted for other diagnoses.
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We conducted this study to evaluate the validity of the perception that awareness of their terminal prognosis and use of palliative care or nonuse of an intensive care unit (ICU) causes patients to die sooner than they would otherwise. ⋯ Patients' being aware that they are dying and entering a palliative care facility or ICU does not seem to influence patients' survival.
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Critical care medicine · Jan 2010
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyMemories and health-related quality of life after intensive care: a follow-up study.
The overall aim of this study was to describe changes in health-related quality of life, anxiety, depression, and return to work from 0.5-1.5 yrs to 4.5-5.5 yrs after injury in patients with and without delusional memories during their intensive care unit stay. A secondary aim was to explore factors that were related to health-related quality of life and to compare trauma patients' health-related quality of life 4.5 to 5.5 yrs after injury with a reference group. ⋯ From a long-term perspective, health-related quality of life has improved but not reached the reference sample scores in Short Form-36. Seventy-five percent had returned to work. Patients with delusional memories still experienced poorer health-related quality of life and more patients had anxiety and depression compared with patients without those memories.
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Multicenter Study
Outcome after injury: memories, health-related quality of life, anxiety, and symptoms of depression after intensive care.
To examine the relationship between delusional memories from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) stay, health related quality of life (HRQoL), anxiety, and symptoms of depression in patients with physical trauma, 6 months to 18 months after their ICU stay. ⋯ Our results highlight the importance of treating the delusional memories experienced by ICU patients with a trauma diagnosis as a postinjury factor with a potential to create anxiety and symptoms of depression and which may affect HRQoL after discharge.
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Intensive care medicine · Mar 2004
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Clinical TrialPost-traumatic stress disorder-related symptoms in relatives of patients following intensive care.
To evaluate the effectiveness of the provision of information in the form of a rehabilitation program following critical illness in reducing psychological distress in the patients' close family. ⋯ A high incidence of psychological distress was evident in relatives. Written information concerning recovery from ICU provided to the patient and their close family did not reduce this. High levels of psychological distress in patients were found to be correlated with high levels in relatives.