Risk of post-traumatic stress symptoms in family members of intensive care unit patients.

By É. Azoulay, F. Pochard, N. Kentish-Barnes, S. Chevret, J. Aboab, C. Adrie, D. Annane, G. Bleichner, P. Bollaert, M. Darmon and 16 more. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2005

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Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Functional disability 5 years after acute respiratory distress syndrome. (2011, neutral): “of patients (%)* 40 (48) 45 (65) 50 (70) 46 (73) 49 (77)”
• Intergenerational Trauma: Convergence of Multiple Processes among First Nations peoples in Canada (2009, neutral): “A drawback to the IES-R is that there is no specific cut-off score corresponding to particular severity of PTSD, and various studies have used scores ranging from 19-30 to suggest significant risk for PTSD (Azoulay, 2005; Jones et al., 2004).”
• Associations between end-of-life discussions, patient mental health, medical care near death, and caregiver bereavement adjustment (2008, neutral): “The bereavement literature has begun to explore the associations between patients’ place of death, the receipt of hospice care, and caregivers’ subsequent risk for psychiatric disorders.(17,39,40) Recent studies have shown that communication interventions in the intensive care unit can reduce psycho”
• Providing Adaptive Health Updates Across the Personal Social Network (2014, background): “However, if network members are to provide support, they need to be kept apprised of the ego’s needs (Azoulay et al., 2005; Cohen, 2004; O’Mara, 2005; Rabow, Hauser, & Adams, 2004).”
• Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: A consensus statement by the American College of Critical Care Medicine (2008, background): “For example, an intervention that rushed families to make decisions might be associated with decreased family satisfaction with care and increased family depression, anxiety, or posttraumatic stress disorder (20, 21).”
• Family response to critical illness: Postintensive care syndrome–family (2012, background): “Azoulay et al (1), France 90 days PTSD (IES 30): 33% PTSD was more common in relatives who felt information was incomplete in the ICU (48%), who shared in decision-making (48%), whose relative died in the ICU (50%), whose relative died after end-of-life decisions (60%), and who shared in end-of-life”