Joanne McPeake, Theodore J Iwashyna, Leanne M Boehm, Elizabeth Hibbert, Rita N Bakhru, Anthony J Bastin, Brad W Butcher, Tammy L Eaton, Wendy Harris, Aluko A Hope, James Jackson, Annie Johnson, Janet A Kloos, Karen A Korzick, Joel Meyer, Ashley Montgomery-Yates, Mark E Mikkelsen, Andrew Slack, Dorothy Wade, Mary Still, Giora Netzer, Ramona O Hopkins, Tara Quasim, Carla M Sevin, Kimberley J Haines
BACKGROUND: After critical illness, patients are often left with impairments in physical, social, emotional, and cognitive functioning. Peer support interventions have been implemented internationally to ameliorate these issues. OBJECTIVE: To explore what patients believed to be the key mechanisms of effectiveness of peer support programs implemented during critical care recovery. METHODS: In a secondary analysis of an international qualitative data set, 66 telephone interviews with patients were undertaken across 14 sites in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States to understand the effect of peer support during recovery from critical illness...
February 10, 2021: American Journal of Critical Care