ICU Survivors Experience of ICU Diaries: An Ancillary Qualitative Analysis of the ICU Diary Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate patients' experience of ICU diaries 6 months after ICU discharge among survivors. This study was designed to add insight into a large randomized study, which found no benefit of the ICU diary to post-traumatic stress disorder among critically ill patients having received mechanical ventilation.

Design

A preplanned qualitative substudy of patients receiving an ICU diary written by ICU caregivers and families. Six months after ICU discharge, survivors were contacted by a psychologist for a telephone interview using a semi-directive guide.

Setting

Thirty-five French ICUs.

Patients

All ICU survivors having received an ICU diary.

Intervention

An ICU diary written by both ICU staff and families.

Measurements and main results

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SUBMITTER: Flahault C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8133114 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature