Effect of a family-maintained progress journal on anxiety of families of critically ill patients

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 96-109

  Kloos, Janet A ^a,b   Daly, Barbara J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care families; Diaries; Family anxiety; Progress journal; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; APACHE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FAMILY COPING; FAMILY MAINTAINED PROGRESS JOURNAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; MISHEL UNCERTAINTY IN ILLNESS SCALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; RELIGION; REVIEW; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STRESS; SUPPORT GROUP;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CRITICAL CARE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNCERTAINTY; WRITING;

EID: 42049112059     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CNQ.0000314469.41507.cb     Document Type: Review

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