ReviewAcute medicine & surgery
Postintensive care syndrome family: A comprehensive review.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Post-Intensive Care Syndrome in Family: A Concept Analysis.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of restricted family presence during the COVID-19 pandemic on critically ill patients, families, and critical care clinicians: a qualitative systematic review.BMC health services research · 2024Pooled it
- A Co-Designed Post-ICU Follow-Up Pathway Is Feasible and May Be Associated With Improved Psychosocial Recovery for Patients and Their Caregivers: Outcomes From the IMPACT-ICU Single-Center Randomized Controlled Trial.Critical care explorations · 2026Trial
- The FICUS cluster randomized controlled trial of a family support intervention in adult intensive care units: mental health and family functioning outcomes.Intensive care medicine · 2026Trial
- Effects of The Caregiver Pathway intervention on symptoms of post-intensive care syndrome among family caregivers to critically ill patients: long-term results from a randomized controlled trial.Intensive care medicine · 2025Trial
- Nurse-Led Family Support Intervention for Families of Critically Ill Patients: The FICUS Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA internal medicine · 2025Trial
- Rethinking Regret: Reappraisal Tendencies Buffer Regret for ICU Surrogates Following Patient Death.Western journal of nursing research · 2025Trial
- Effect of an intensive care unit virtual reality intervention on relatives´ mental health distress: a multicenter, randomized controlled trial.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Trial
- Surrogate resilience and clinical titration of presence in the open intensive care unit: a systematic narrative synthesis.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2026Review
- Rehabilitation and the post-intensive care syndrome across the recovery continuum: a narrative review.Intensive care medicine · 2026Review
- Quality of Life in Intensive Care Unit Survivors-Family Member Dyads: A Conceptual Framework and Longitudinal Study Protocol.Nursing in critical care · 2026Article
- Development and validation of a post-ICU syndrome in family caregivers scale (PICS-F Scale).BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Family support in intensive care: beyond no effect trials and the hidden challenges of cluster randomization.Intensive care medicine · 2026Article
- "It was torture for him, and it was torture for us to see him like that": understanding multiple ICU-related triggers of family PTSD symptoms-a qualitative thematic study.Intensive care medicine · 2026Article
- [Complex family interventions in intensive care units: state of knowledge and future directions].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2026Review
- Health perspectives after intensive care unit-discharge: Insights from patient and family interviews.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2026Article
- Musical Rounds: A multisite, mixed-methods feasibility study of a musical legacy session in palliative care.Palliative & supportive care · 2026Article
- Ensuring inclusion is central to critical care research design.Intensive care medicine · 2026Article
- Interventions to improve mental health in caregivers of adult intensive care patients: a systematic review.BMC nursing · 2026Article
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9 authors at 6 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Families of critically ill patients are predisposed to tremendous burdens when their relatives are admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). Postintensive care syndrome family (PICS-F) can be described as a devastated life, encompassing psychological, physical, and socioeconomical burdens that begin with the emotional impact experienced by the family when the patient is admitted to the ICU. PICS-F was primarily proposed as a clinically significant psychological impairment, but it needs to be extended beyond the psychological impairment of the family to include physical and socioeconomical impairments in the future. The prevalence of physiological problems including depression, anxiety and post-traumatic syndrome is 20-40%, and that of non-physiological problems including fatigue is 15% at 6 months after the ICU stay. Assessment of PICS-F was frequently conducted at 3- or 6-month points, although the beginning of the evaluation was based on different assessment points among each of the studies. Families of ICU patients need to be given and understand accurate information, such as the patient's diagnosis, planned care, and prognosis. Prevention of PICS-F requires a continuous bundle of multifaceted and/or multidisciplinary interventions including providing a family information leaflet, ICU diary, communication facilitators, supportive grief care, and follow-up, for the patient and families from during the ICU stay to after discharge from the ICU. This is the first comprehensive review of PICS-F to address the concept, risk factors, assessment tools, prevalence, and management to prevent PICS-F to facilitate acute care physicians' understanding of PICS-F.
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