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September 25, 2010
Diary May Help Reduce ICU Patients' Risk Of PTSD After Difficult Hospital Stay
HealthDay (9/22, Preidt) reported, "A diary can help reduce intensive care patients' risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a difficult stay in the hospital, according to a" study published online in the journal Critical Care.
In a study of 352 intensive care unit (ICU) patients, 162 of which were "randomly selected to receive diaries about their time in the ICU," researchers found that "patients who received a diary were less than half as likely to develop PTSD as the control group that didn't receive a diary."
Posted by admin at September 25, 2010 04:59 PM