Psychological Attachment Orientation and Long-Term Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Among Family Members of ICU Patients.

ABSTRACT: To determine the degree to which an ICU patient's family member having an "anxious" psychologic attachment orientation is a risk factor for developing long-term posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms following patient ICU discharge or death.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Setting

Single academic neuroscience ICU from November 2017 to September 2020.

Participants

Consecutively enrolled sample of family members, one for each ICU patient with a minimum length of stay of 24 hours.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Near time of ICU discharge or patient death, we determined each participant's psychologic attachment orientation as anxious versus nonanxious via a brief standard survey tool, the Relationship Questionnaire, and measured oth

SUBMITTER: Zhang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9426807 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature