Benefits of Peer Support for Intensive Care Unit Survivors: Sharing Experiences, Care Debriefing, and Altruism
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McPeake, JoanneIwashyna, Theodore J
Boehm, Leanne M
Hibbert, Elizabeth
Bakhru, Rita N
Bastin, Anthony J
Butcher, Brad W
Eaton, Tammy L
Harris, Wendy
Hope, Aluko A
Jackson, James
Johnson, Annie
Kloos, Janet A
Korzick, Karen A
Meyer, Joel
Montgomery-Yates, Ashley
Mikkelsen, Mark E
Slack, Andrew
Wade, Dorothy
Still, Mary
Netzer, Giora
Hopkins, Ramona O
Quasim, Tara
Sevin, Carla M
Haines, Kimberley J
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2021-03-01Journal
American journal of Critical CarePublisher
American Association of Critical Care NursesType
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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. Prevalent themes were documented with framework analysis. RESULTS: Most patients who had been involved in peer support programs reported benefit. Patients described 3 primary mechanisms: (1) sharing experiences, (2) care debriefing, and (3) altruism. CONCLUSION: Peer support is a relatively simple intervention that could be implemented to support patients during recovery from critical illness. However, more research is required into how these programs can be implemented in a safe and sustainable way in clinical practice. ©2021 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.Rights/Terms
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http://hdl.handle.net/10713/15004ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.4037/ajcc2021702
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