Patients' and Caregivers' Perceptions of Intensive Care Unit Hospitalization and Recovery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Telehealth-based intensive care unit recovery clinics (ICU-RCs) can increase access to post-ICU recovery care for patients and their families. It is crucial to understand patients' and caregivers' experience of illness and recovery to build patient- and family-centered ICU-RCs.

Objective

To explore patients' and caregivers' perceptions of ICU hospitalization and recovery.

Methods

Individual semistructured telephone interviews were conducted with 14 patients and 12 caregivers who participated in a telehealth ICU-RC. This study was guided by qualitative description methodology. Conventional content analysis was used to analyze the data.

Results

Patients described their ICU hospitalization as scary, traumatic, and lonely. Participants' feedback on hospi

SUBMITTER: Kovaleva MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9275380 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature