Background Few resources are available to support caregivers of patients who have
survived critical illness; consequently, the caregivers' own health may suffer. We studied …

Background: Despite growing attention to the positive meaning from ICU survivorship, little is
known about positive experience among family caregivers of ICU survivors. Objectives: To …

BACKGROUND: The objective of this work was to evaluate the time course of clinical and
health-related quality of life outcomes of long-stay ICU survivors' and caregivers' burden …

Abstract Background/Objective Chronic emotional distress (eg, depression, anxiety, post-
traumatic stress) is common after stroke and interdependent between patients and their …

BACKGROUND: Informal caregiving of stroke survivors often begins with intensity compared
with the linear caregiving trajectories in progressive conditions. Informal caregivers of stroke …

Rationale: There has been a paradigm shift to partner with family caregivers by actively
involving them in the direct care of the patient throughout the critical illness trajectory. Before …

Background Critical illness increases the risk for poor mental health outcomes among both
patients and their informal caregivers, especially their surrogate decision-makers …

Background Experiences during a stay in the intensive care unit (ICU), including pain,
delirium, physical deterioration, and the critical illness itself, may all influence survivors' …

Background and ObjectiveA priority focus on palliative and supportive care is helping the
43.5 million caregivers who care for individuals with serious illness. Lacking support may …

Background Knowledge about caregiver strain among relatives of out-of-hospital cardiac
arrest (OHCA) survivors is limited. Thus, the objectives were to i) describe differences in self …