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Published in: Critical Care 1/2011

Open Access 01-02-2011 | Poster presentation

Patient's families in the ICU: describing their strategies to face the situation

Authors: KK Borges, MG Mello, CM David

Published in: Critical Care | Special Issue 1/2011

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The ICU is an environment that generates permanent anguish in family patients due to the possibility of the death of the patient [1]. The stressful situation might induce families to call upon strategies of facing different levels and intensities to keep the harmony of its own emotional structure. The objective is to describe the strategy processes used by families of severely ill patients in the ICU to face the situation. …
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Azoulay E, Pochard F, Chevret S, et al.: Impact of a family information leaflet on effectiveness of information provided to family members of intensive care unit patients. Am J Resp Crit Care Med 2002, 165: 438-442.CrossRefPubMed
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Savoia M, Santana P, Mejias N: Adaptação do Inventário de Estratégias de Coping de Folkman e Lazarus para o Português. Volume 7. São Paulo: Psicologia USP; 1996:183-201.
Metadata
Title
Patient's families in the ICU: describing their strategies to face the situation
Authors
KK Borges
MG Mello
CM David
Publication date
01-02-2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc9947

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