ArticleJournal of intensive care2021
Psychological effects of remote-only communication among reference persons of ICU patients during COVID-19 pandemic.
Article in Journal of intensive care, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04385121 (Psychological Impact of the Hospitalization of a Family Member in Intensive Care for Covid-19 Infection), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Psychological Impact of the Hospitalization of a Family Member in Intensive Care for Covid-19 Infection
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Effect of Hospital Visitor Policies on Patients, Their Visitors, and Health Care Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.The American journal of medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Family-centred care of patients admitted to the intensive care unit in times of COVID-19: A systematic review.Intensive & critical care nursing · 2022Pooled it
- Anxiety, depression and distress in family members of people who have experienced a critical care admission: a systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis.Journal of intensive care · 2025Article
- Exploring Video Calls and PTSD Symptoms in Family Members of Severe COVID-19 Patients Post-ICU Discharge: A Mixed-Methods Study.Nursing in critical care · 2025Article
- The Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Hospital Visitation Bans in the COVID-19 Era.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Visiting Policies: A Worldwide Survey.Journal of pediatric intensive care · 2024Article
- Support for relatives in the intensive care unit: lessons from a cross-sectional multicentre cohort study during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Family member perspectives on intensive care unit in-person visiting restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.Intensive & critical care nursing · 2023Article
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- Family perspectives on facilitators and barriers to the set up and conduct of virtual visiting in intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative interview study.Intensive & critical care nursing · 2022Article
- Video calls did not reduce PTSD symptoms in relatives during restricted ICU visits in the COVID-19 pandemic.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Barriers to and facilitators for supporting patient communication in the adult ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.Journal of advanced nursing · 2022Article
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- Communication and visiting policies in Italian intensive care units during the first COVID-19 pandemic wave and lockdown: a nationwide survey.BMC anesthesiology · 2022Article
- Nurse perceptions of a nurse family liaison implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative thematic analysis.Intensive & critical care nursing · 2022Article
- Comparison of clinicians' perceptions of the Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Resuscitation plus · 2022Article
- The parental psychological distress caused by separation from their critically ill child during the COVID-19 pandemic: A tale of two cities.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
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- [Application of a standard communication system-based continuous home remote visit mode in the management of visits to severely burned patients in the post-pandemic era of coronavirus disease 2019].Zhonghua shao shang za zhi = Zhonghua shaoshang zazhi = Chinese journal of burns · 2021Article
- A telepresence robot in the room of a COVID-19 patient can provide virtual family presence.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundDuring COVID-19 pandemic, visits have been prohibited in most French ICUs. Psychological effects, for reference persons (RPs), of remote-only communication have been assessed.
methodsAll RPs of patients referred to ICU for COVID-19 were included. HADS, IES-R, and satisfaction were evaluated at admission, discharge/death, and 3 months. At 3 months, a psychologist provided a qualitative description of RPs' psychological distress.
resultsEighty-eight RPs were included. Prevalence of anxiety and depression was 83% and 73% respectively. At 3 months, lower HADS decrease was associated with patient death/continued hospitalization, and/or sleeping disorders in RPs (p < 0.01). Ninety-nine percent RPs felt the patient was safe (9 [7; 10]/10 points, Likert-type scale), confident with caregivers (10 [9; 10]/10 points), and satisfied with information provided (10 [9; 10]/10 points). All RPs stressed the specific-type of "responsibility" associated with being an RP in a remote-only context, leading RPs to develop narrow diffusion strategies (67%) and restrict the array of contacted relatives to a very few and/or only contacting them rarely. 10 RPs (30%) related the situation to a prior traumatic experience.
conclusionRPs experienced psychological distress and reported that being an RP in a remote-only communication context was a specific responsibility and qualified it as an overall negative experience.
trial registrationNCT04385121 . Registered 12 May 2020. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ .
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