Coping strategies of family members of intensive care unit patients

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OBJECTIVE: To analyse the coping strategies of family members of patients admitted to intensive care units.

DESIGN: A cross-sectional study developed with 70 relatives of patients admitted to the intensive care unit.

SETTING: An adult intensive care unit at a university hospital in Brazil.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Coping strategies were identified by the Folkman and Lazarus Inventory of Coping Strategies and statistically compared to the sociodemographic data of family members and patients' clinical data.

RESULTS: Coping strategies focused on emotion were the most used, especially those attributed to the escape-avoidance factor. There was a significant association (p < 0.05) between women and the use of adaptive strategies focused on the problem; less education and lower income with maladaptive strategies focused on emotion; second-degree relatives and the positive reassessment factor; participants involved in religious activities and the social support factor. Regarding the clinical variables, patients admitted to the intensive care unit for more than seven days showed an association (p < 0.05) with the social support factor.

CONCLUSION: Family members used adaptive coping strategies more focused on emotion. Additionally, the lower the educational and economic levels, the greater the use of maladaptive strategies focused on emotion.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:63

Enthalten in:

Intensive & critical care nursing - 63(2021) vom: 04. Apr., Seite 102980

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Frota, Oleci Pereira [VerfasserIn]
de Sene, Adamerflan Gouveia [VerfasserIn]
Ferreira-Júnior, Marcos Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Giacon-Arruda, Bianca Cristina Ciccone [VerfasserIn]
Teston, Élen Ferraz [VerfasserIn]
Pompeo, Daniele Alcalá [VerfasserIn]
Martins de Paula, Fabiana [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Critically ill patients
Emotional adjustment
Holistic care
Journal Article
Professional-family relations
Psychological stress
Surveys and questionnaires

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 14.09.2021

Date Revised 14.09.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.iccn.2020.102980

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM319074927