Anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder management after critical illness: a UK multi-centre prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Survivors of critical illness have significant psychopathological comorbidity. The treatments offered by primary health care professionals to affected patients are unstudied.

Aim

To report the psychological interventions after GPs received notification of patients who showed severe symptoms of anxiety, depression or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Methods

Design: Multi-centre prospective cohort sub-study of the ICON study.

Setting

NHS primary care in the United Kingdom.

Participants

Adult patients, November 2006-October 2010 who had received at least 24 h of intensive care, where the general practitioner recorded notification that the patient had reported severe symptoms or caseness using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) or the

SUBMITTER: Hatch R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7607621 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature