Postintensive care unit psychological burden in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and informal caregivers: A multicenter study

• DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0b013e3181feb824
• Publication Date: 2010-10-29T09:06:26Z
• Authors: Sandra de Miranda; Frédéric Pochard; Marine Chaize; Bruno Megarbane; Antoine Cuvelier; Nicolas Bele; Jesus Gonzalez-Be...; Jérome Aboab; Alexandre Lautrette; Virginie Lemiale; Nicolas Roche; Marina Thirion; Sylvie Chevret; Benoit Schlemmer; Thomas Similowski; Elie Azoulay
• Keywords: Depression

To determine the prevalence and risk factors of symptoms anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder-related in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease their relatives after an intensive care unit stay.Prospective multicenter study.Nineteen French units.One hundred twenty-six who survived stay 102 relatives.None.Patients were interviewed at discharge 90 days later to assess anxiety depression using Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) Impact Event (IES). At discharge, 90% recollected traumatic psychological events unit. day 90, we able conduct telephone interviews 53 47 relatives. scores indicated 52% 45.5% 28.3% 18.9% on respectively. Corresponding 72.2% 25.7% 40.4% 14.9% The 20.7% 29.8% 90. Peritraumatic dissociation assessed Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire was independently associated Previous experience recollection bothersome noise predicted patients.Psychiatric found be common a group 126 later. predict this sample