2019年12月16日 · Background Memory gaps in intensive care unit (ICU) survivors are associated with psychiatric disorders. The ICU diaries improve the patient’s factual memory of the ICU, but it is not clear if they reduce the incidence of psychiatric disorders in patients and relatives after hospital discharge. The aim of this study is to evaluate the …

2020年3月6日 · Background Although studies on the effectiveness of the use of ICU diaries on psychiatric disorders and quality of life have been published, the results still seem to be controversial. The study aimed to determine the effects of using an ICU diary on psychiatric disorders, sleep quality, and quality of life (QoL) in adult ICU survivors in China. Methods One hundred and twenty-six patients who ...

2013年12月18日 · Samples have usually been from one center and highly selective, and as few as 10% of the patients in each ICU received the diary intervention [2, 8, 15, 24]. Retention rates were high in the two RCTs [2, 8], 25% in the cohort study with retrospective reference group , and generally much lower in the small cohort studies. Potential issues of ...

2010年9月15日 · Introduction Patients recovering from critical illness have been shown to be at risk of developing Post Traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD). This study was to evaluate whether a prospectively collected diary of a patient's intensive care unit (ICU) stay when used during convalescence following critical illness will reduce the development of new onset PTSD. Methods Intensive care patients with an ...

no ICU diary. ICU diary writing Based on the Whiston Hospital Critical Care Unit’s pa-tient diary guidelines [22] and methods reported by other researchers [15, 16], an ICU diary outline was de-signed by the researchers in this study. The frame of diary was standardized with the following headings: ward events (the time points of turning ...

2009年4月1日 · Introduction UK policy recommendations advocate the use of intensive care unit (ICU) follow-up services to help detect and treat patients' physical and emotional problems after hospital discharge and as a means of service evaluation. This study explores patients' perceptions and experiences of these services. Methods Thirty-four former ICU patients were recruited throughout the UK, using ...

diary is minimal at only a few minutes per day, except for starting the diary, which takes longer as an introduc-tion is needed to explain why the patient had come to the ICU. Each study unit had a diary group that took on the burden of this. The patients were recruited to the study on the general wards at about one week after dis-charge from ...

2023年7月31日 · Rationale An ICU-diary is written by nurses, therapists, or family members to record events about the period that critically ill patients usually cannot remember. It may contain photographs and psychoeducational information in addition to handwritten entries about events, visits, or patient progress.

2013年1月21日 · The ICU workers thought that the diary was beneficial in communicating the suffering of families while providing comfort and helping to build the patient's ICU narrative. They reported strong emotions related to the diaries and a perception of intruding into the patients' and families' privacy when reading the diaries.

2019年6月11日 · Also, evidence is emerging that an ICU diary—written by family members or ICU staff—may help patients fill in gaps in their memories, thus reducing the risk of PTSD development [42, 76, 77]. The increased prevalence of PTSD over time in cases that have not received treatment for PTSD symptoms must be highlighted.