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• TITLE: Acute Stress Symptoms in Families of Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit during the First 24 Hours Following Admission in Japan

  AUTHORS: Miyuki Komachi, Kiyoko Kamibeppu

  KEYWORDS: Intensive Care Unit, Families, within 24 Hours, Acute Stress Symptoms, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Nursing, Vol.5 No.4, April 2, 2015

  ABSTRACT: Families of patients in the intensive care unit often experience sever stress. Understanding their experience is important for providing family-centered care during this difficult period. Little is known about the experience of families of patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). To evaluate the prevalence and factors associated with acute stress symptoms among families of patients admitted to the ICU, we carried out a cross-sectional study at a teaching and advanced treatment hospital. The mean total Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) score differed significantly between planned and unplanned ICU admissions (t = 4.03, p