Research briefEffectiveness of a telephone intervention in reducing anxiety of families of patients in an intensive care unit
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2016, Australian Critical CareCitation Excerpt :The studies within the Information theme provide further evidence that the admission of the patient to an ICU has significant impact on the family, and that they require information in a variety of formats throughout all stages of the patient’s illness, recovery, or death. Despite variability apparent in the timing of information as an intervention (from pre admission or early admission,23,30,43 during the patient’s ICU stay,35 on withdrawal of treatment,38,42 on transfer to the ward,45 or discharge to home36) the provision of information or understandable explanations in a ‘take-away’ format that families can revisit was found to be a positive strategy. Further, augmenting written information with face-to-face meetings appears to be effective in providing families with information that is personalised and tailored to their needs.23,30
The impact of the use of paddle pagers on family member anxiety during theintraoperative period
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