Exploring family functioning and - hardiness in families' experiencing adult intensive care - A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: Being cared for in an intensive care unit affects both the patient being cared for and the family in various ways. The family is of great importance for the recovery of the former intensive-care patient. The aim is to explore family functioning and family hardiness in families of former intensive care patients. A cross-sectional study using two self-reported questionnaires. Former adult intensive care patients and their family were recruited to participate between December 2017 and June 2019. The data were coded and entered the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 25, for analysis. To explore questionnaire data, descriptive and inferential statistical analyses were performed. Scale values were calculated on, both family wise and between the patients and the family members. S

SUBMITTER: Ahlberg M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10325063 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature