Early Risk and Resiliency Factors Predict Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Caregivers of Patients Admitted to a Neuroscience ICU.

ABSTRACT:

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 disorder. As a first step toward developing interventions to prevent posttraumatic stress disorder in ICU caregivers, we examined the predictive validity of psychosocial risk screening during admission for caregiver posttraumatic stress disorder at 3 and 6 months post hospitalization.

Design

An observational, prospective study.

Participants

Ninety-nine caregivers were recruited as part of a longitudinal research program of patient-caregiver dyads in a neuroscience ICU.

Intervention

None.

Measurements and main results

Caregiver posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms were assessed

SUBMITTER: Choi KW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5899036 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature