An International Study Exploring the Experience of Survivors of Critical Illness as Volunteers Within ICU Recovery Services.

ABSTRACT: Many clinicians have implemented follow-up and aftercare to support patients following ICU. Some of this care is supported and facilitated by peer volunteers. There is limited contemporary work that has explicitly explored volunteer roles within ICU recovery services or the experience of volunteers undertaking these roles. We sought to explore the experience of survivors of critical illness, as volunteers, involved in ICU recovery services and understand their motivation for undertaking these roles.

Design

Qualitative exploration using in-depth semistructured interviews. The study design used an inductive content analysis process. We also documented the roles that were adopted by volunteers in each site involved in the study.

Setting

Patients and caregivers were sampled from

SUBMITTER: Robinson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8191690 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature