Post intensive care unit patient's recovery
- Conditions
- rehabilitation in intensive care survivors.Care involving use of rehabilitation procedures
- Registration Number
- IRCT201110197844N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Vice chancellor for research, kerman University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Aims: Patients in intensive care units experience many physiological and<br /> psychological complications that their recovery sometimes takes several years.<br /> Life quality of intensive patients after discharge is lower than other internal and<br /> surgical patients and physical problems makes a person disable in doing daily<br /> activities. This study assesses the effect of using self-help rehabilitation<br /> program on the life quality of the patients discharged from Intensive Care<br /> Units.<br /> Methods: It was a clinical trial study which was done on ninety patients of<br /> internal-surgical intensive units of three hospitals in Kerman. This study was<br /> done by SIP68 life quality questionnaire with three physical, psychological and<br /> social areas and six dimensions in 2012. After patients’ discharged from<br /> intensive care unit, they were in a general ward in tow case and control groups,<br /> data were analyzed by using inferential, descriptive statistical tests and SPSS19<br /> software.<br /> Results: The mean score of the life quality in all the dimensions in intervention<br /> group was improved statistically. The mean age of the participants was 37.2<br /> (9.5). 44.99 percent (50.73) were women and 45.54 percent (49.26) were men.<br /> There was no relationship between none of the demographic factors and life<br /> quality.<br /> Conclusions: Since intervention had remarkable effect on improvement of the<br /> patients’ life quality after discharge, performing patient-centered methods is<br /> effective in this area.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 90
patients who stayed in ICU more than 48 hours; were mechanically ventilated ;were eager and able to participate in term of literacy and cognition state; Exclusion criteria: terminally ill patient ;patients with prolonged recovery like those with burn injury ;History of major psychological disorders as a confounding factor in psychological recovery
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quality of life. Timepoint: Before and three months after intervention. Method of measurement: Sickness Impact Profile 68.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Demographic factors like age, gender, Length of stay and severity of illness score by APACHE ii. Timepoint: Before intervention. Method of measurement: Questionnaire.