Background Critical illness and the problems faced after ICU discharge do not only affect the
patient, it also negatively impacts patients' informal caregivers. There is no review which …

Aims and objectives To map research‐based psychological distress among the family
members with patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Background Having a loved one in …

Importance Keeping a diary for patients while they are in the intensive care unit (ICU) might
reduce their posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Objectives To assess the effect …

Objectives To describe the prevalence and trajectory of family caregivers' post-traumatic
stress symptoms during the first year after a patient's admission to the intensive care unit and …

Background: Admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) is not only stressful to the patients but
the patients' family members. Families are believed not to receive their required attention …

ObjectiveFamily members of critically ill patients can suffer symptoms of post-intensive care
syndrome-family (PICS-F), including anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder …

Palliative care is an interdisciplinary care to optimize physical, psychosocial, and spiritual
symptoms of patients and their families whose quality of life is impaired by serious, life …

Purpose Keeping an ICU patient diary has been reported to benefit the patient's recovery.
Here, we investigated the families' experience with reading and writing in patient ICU diaries …

Aims and objectives To evaluate the impact of supportive interventions perceived by both
the intensive care unit patients' relatives and the healthcare providers, such as deferred …

The theory of nurse-promoted engagement with families in the intensive care unit (ICU) was
developed to describe the dynamic and complex interplay between factors that support or …