Within the last couple of decades, advances in critical care medicine have led to increased
survival of critically ill patients, as well as the discovery of notable, long-term health …

Anxiety symptoms are prevalent in family carers of dependent people. Despite accumulating
evidence in the area, there are still inconsistent findings on the association between carer …

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

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 …

Importance To our knowledge, there are no evidence-based interventions to prevent chronic
emotional distress (ie, depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress [PTS]) in critical care …

Purpose The purpose of the study is to examine the associations of patients' and their
informal caregivers' psychosocial resiliency factors with their own and their partners' emotion …

Objective To explore the impact of resiliency factors on the longitudinal trajectory of
depressive symptoms in patients admitted to the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (Neuro …

Introduction Occupational therapy practice within intensive care units (ICUs) is limited with
respect to published research evidence and guidelines regarding scope of practice. An …

Background Admission to a neuroscience intensive care unit (Neuro-ICU) is sudden and
often traumatic for both patients and their informal caregivers. No prior studies have …

Objectives: Informal caregivers—that is, close family and friends providing unpaid emotional
or instrumental care—of patients admitted to ICUs are at risk for posttraumatic stress …