Caregiver burden and health-related quality of life amongst caregivers of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors.

Aims: To describe burden and health-related quality of life amongst caregivers of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors and explore the potential association with cognitive function of the survivors. Caregivers of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction were used as controls.

Methods: Data were collected from the cognitive substudy of the Targeted Temperature Management-trial.

Detailed analysis of health-related quality of life after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Aim: To describe the detailed health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in survivors from the TTM-trial and to investigate potential differences related to sex and age.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study originating from a large prospective international, multicentre trial, including 442 respondents who answered the Short Form-36 item Questionnaire Health Survey version 2 (SF-36v2) at a structured follow-up 6 months after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Statistical analysis between independent groups were performed with Mann-Whitney U or Chi-square.