Timing of Exposure to ICU Diaries and Its Impact on Mental Health, Memories, and Quality of Life: A Double-Blind Randomized Control Trial.

ABSTRACT: Optimal time for ICU diary delivery and impact on mental health (MH), anxiety-depression, post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), quality of life (QOL), and memories is unclear. We evaluated the effect of ICU diaries, dispatched at different time points, on outcomes in an Indian cohort.

Design

Double-blind randomized controlled trial.

Setting

A 1,000-bedded teaching hospital in East India.

Patients

Mechanically ventilated (>24 hr) adults were recruited, excluding those dead or incapable of meaningful-communication at discharge or follow-up. Eighty-three patients, aged 46.2 ± 17.2 years, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II scores 13.7 ± 4.9 were assessed. Length of ICU stay was 8.2 ± 7.1 days with 3.7 ± 3.2 ventilator days.

Intervention

Of 820 screen

SUBMITTER: Tripathy S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9345644 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature