Moving from physical survival to psychologic recovery: a qualitative study of survivor perspectives on long-term outcome after sudden cardiac arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Over 400,000 adults suffer out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) each year in North America. Despite a very high mortality rate, even 10% survival means that a minimum of 3500 people return to their lives and their families. However, their experience of living and their health-related quality of life after such a life-changing event are quite variable, much more complex than just having lived or died, and should not be reduced to crude measures of neurological functioning.

Methods

We conducted 32 in-depth qualitative interviews with survivor/family member dyads at various stages of survival. The interviews focused on the recovery journey, long-term issues most important to them and how measuring such concepts could help. Interviews were audio-taped, transcribed v

SUBMITTER: Dainty KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8244397 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature