Background Despite international bodies calling for increased patient and family
involvement, these concepts remain poorly defined within literature on critical and intensive …

Aims and objectives This review examined the literature across 12 years that explored
nurses' perceptions of their role when communicating with families in adult intensive care …

Psychological resilience has become a popular concept. Owing to that popularity, the word
resilience has taken on myriad and often overlapping meanings. To be a useful framework …

BACKGROUND: Informational support to family members of ICU patients has significant
potential for reducing their psychological distress, enabling them to better cope and support …

Objective: To describe the symptom experiences of family members of patients at high risk
for dying in the intensive care unit and to assess risk factors associated with higher symptom …

A high proportion of family members present with symptoms of anxiety (70%) and
depression (35%). Acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) related …

Aim To describe published literature on the needs and experiences of family members of
adults admitted to intensive care and interventions to improve family satisfaction and …

If only. If only she'd come then, or we had thought to ask. Her heart, an empty vessel of
mourning would ache, but the tortured anguish of the unanswered question never needed to …

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 …

Purpose The unanticipated admission of a patient to the intensive care unit (ICU) can be
particularly frightening and stressful for their family members. The objective of this study was …