Effect of Nurse-Led Consultations on Post-Traumatic Stress and Sense of Coherence in Discharged ICU Patients With Clinically Relevant Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms-A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objectives: To investigate the effect of nurse-led consultations on reducing post-traumatic stress symptoms and increasing sense of coherence in discharged ICU patients with clinically relevant post-traumatic stress symptoms and to identify variables associated with symptoms 12 months later.

Design: A pragmatic nonblinded randomized controlled trial.

Settings: Five surgical and medical ICUs at Oslo University Hospital.

Post-traumatic stress symptoms and sense of coherence in proximity to intensive care unit discharge.

Background: Post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms following intensive care unit (ICU) treatment can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder and represent a severe health burden. In trauma patients, a strong sense of coherence (SOC) is associated with fewer PTS symptoms. However, this association has not been investigated in a general ICU sample.

Job Satisfaction and Burnout among Intensive Care Unit Nurses and Physicians.

Introduction. Nurses and physicians working in the intensive care unit (ICU) may be exposed to considerable job stress. The study aim was to assess the level of and the relationship between (1) job satisfaction, (2) job stress, and (3) burnout symptoms.

Prevalence and predictors of return to work in hospitalised trauma patients during the first year after discharge: a prospective cohort study.

Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate the proportion of patients who return to work and predictors of return to pre-injury level of work participation the first year after trauma.

Methods: A prospective single-centre study of 188 patients aged 18-65 years with different degrees of injury severity was carried out in a trauma referral centre. All patients were working or studying full or part time before the injury.

Health related quality of life in trauma patients. Data from a one-year follow up study compared with the general population.

Background: Trauma patients have impaired health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after trauma. The aim of the study was to assess HRQOL during the first year after trauma and hospital stay in trauma patients admitted to an intensive-care unit (ICU) for >24 hours compared with non-ICU trauma patients and the general population, and to identify predictors of HRQOL.

Methods: A prospective one-year follow-up study of 242 trauma patients received by the trauma team of a trauma referral centre in Norway was performed.

Satisfaction with communication in ICU patients and relatives: comparisons with medical staffs' expectations and the relationship with psychological distress.

Objective: To study intensive care unit (ICU) patients' and relatives' satisfaction in regard to communication with medical staff (nurses and physicians), perceived support, environmental strain and their psychological distress. Further, to compare this with expectations of the medical staff.

Methods: Cross-sectional study, 4-6 weeks post-ICU discharge.

Psychological distress after severe trauma: a prospective 1-year follow-up study of a trauma intensive care unit population.

Background: The aim of the study was to investigate the level of psychologic distress after trauma and intensive care unit (ICU) stay, memory from the ICU, and predictors for psychologic distress at 12 months.

Methods: Prospective single center study in a trauma referral center for Eastern and Southern Norway. Participants were 150 trauma patients treated in an ICU for > 24 hours.

Health-related quality of life and return to work after critical illness in general intensive care unit patients: a 1-year follow-up study.

Objective: To study how health-related quality of life of intensive care unit survivors compares with the general population, changes over time, and association with an optimistic personality trait and posttraumatic stress. Further, to explore differences in health-related quality of life between medical, trauma, and surgical patients and to assess return to work/school at 1 yr.

Design: Prospective 1-yr follow-up study.

Posttraumatic stress, anxiety and depression symptoms in patients during the first year post intensive care unit discharge.

Introduction: To study the level and predictors of posttraumatic stress, anxiety and depression symptoms in medical, surgical and trauma patients during the first year post intensive care unit (ICU) discharge.

Methods: Of 255 patients included, 194 participated at 12 months. Patients completed the Impact of Event Scale (IES), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Life Orientation Test (LOT) at 4 to 6 weeks, 3 and 12 months and ICU memory tool at the first assessment (baseline).

Patients' memory and psychological distress after ICU stay compared with expectations of the relatives.

Purpose: To compare patients' psychological distress and memories from intensive care unit (ICU) treatment 4-6 weeks after ICU discharge with expectations of their relatives. Further, to explore the relationship between personality traits and ICU memories with psychological distress.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of 255 patients and 298 relatives.

Patient's satisfaction and distress compared with expectations of the medical staff.

Objective: Patient satisfaction is increasingly used to measure and evaluate patient treatment in hospital. The aim of this study is to assess satisfaction regarding communication, support and the degree of anxiety and depression among the patients, and to compare reports from the patients with the expectations of the staff.

Methods: In a prospective study, 176 (93%) of the patients and 52 (80%) of the nurses completed a similar questionnaire.

Emotional strain, communication, and satisfaction of family members in the intensive care unit compared with expectations of the medical staff: experiences from a Norwegian University Hospital.

Objectives: To determine satisfaction in regard to information concerning, and support and facilities for relatives in the intensive care unit (ICU), and to compare this with the staff's expectations on these issues; to determine relatives' degree of psychological distress and use of hypnotics, anxiolytics, and antidepressants; finally, to compare the distress of relatives of survivors and relatives of non-survivors.

Design: Prospective study.

Setting: University-affiliated ICU.