In-person family visits lower mental health problems among critically ill patients
Canada: ICU family visits are linked to a lower incidence of mental problems in critically sick patients for up to a year following hospital discharge, says an article published in the Chest Journal.
Inadequate family visits in the ICU can have long-term effects on patients after they are discharged. It is uncertain what influence family visiting has on the occurrence of patient mental illnesses. Stephana J. Moss performed this study to investigate the relationship between family visits in the ICU and the occurrence of mental sequelae in ICU patients 1 year following hospital release.
This study looked at a population-based retrospective cohort of adult patients admitted to the ICU between January 1, 2014, and May 30, 2017, who survived until hospital discharge with an ICU duration of stay of 3 days. Patients had to have a minimum of 5 years of administrative data before ICU admission and a minimum of 1 year of follow-up data following hospital release to be eligible. An internally verified algorithm that analyzed natural language in medical data identified whether patients had in-person family visits throughout their ICU stay. The primary outcome was the risk of developing a mental condition (composite outcome), which included depressive, anxiety, trauma- and stressor-related, drug use, and psychotic disorders determined using administrative database classification methods.
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