Background: Cardiac arrest is a common cause of morbidity and mortality. In out-of-hospital setting, early recognition cardiac bystander-initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) improves both the chance survival quality life. Objectives: The study aimed to explore awareness regarding knowledge CPR among visitors patients at tertiary level hospital. Design: Cross sectional study. Method: va...

OBJECTIVES Identify useful concepts related to the emotional context facing family members of nursing home residents. These concepts can be used in future studies to design and test interventions that benefit family caregivers. DESIGN Secondary data analyses of qualitative ethnographic data. SETTING Two nursing homes in a large Midwestern city; 8 months of data collection in each. PARTICI...

BACKGROUND An intensive care unit (ICU) admission is a stressful event for the patient and the patient's family. Several studies demonstrated symptoms of anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder in family members of patients admitted to ICU. Some studies recognize that the open visitation policy (OVP) is related to a reduction in symptoms of anxiety and depression for the patient ...

The visits of children/adolescents in adult intensive care units are increasingly more common. However, few studies examine the psychological impact visiting. This systematic review aims to summarise effects that visiting family members has on children/adolescents. A research articles published from 1990 January 2021 was conducted using PsycInfo, PubMed, and CINAHL. Inclusion/exclusion criteria...

Forgiveness is considered necessary for psychological well-being after surviving violence, but it not clear how the hurt person should proceed. This essay gives a firsthand account of trauma author experienced and she healed herself by discovering an indirect route to forgiveness.

8.1 Members Seiji Yunoki (Team Leader) Yuichi Otsuka (Research Scientist) Shigetoshi Sota (Research Scientist) Shixun Zhang (Postdoctoral Researcher) Ahmad Ranjbar (Postdoctoral Researcher) James S. M. Anderson (Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher) Kazuhiro Seki (Special Postdoctoral Researcher, joint) Sandro Sorella (Senior Visiting Scientist) Takami Tohyama (Senior Visiting Scientist) Yutaka Imam...

BACKGROUND Open and patient-tailored guidelines have been recommended as the preferred visitation model in critical care settings; however, many critical care units continue to restrict visitation. OBJECTIVES To determine whether a transition from minimally restrictive to unrestricted visitation hours improves satisfaction of patients' family members and whether such a transition affects nurs...

4.1 Members Toshiyuki Maeda (Team Leader) Masatomo Hashimoto (Research Scientist) Peter Bryzgalov (Research Scientist) Itaru Kitayama (Technical Staff I) Yoshiki Nishikawa (Visiting Scientist, University of Tokyo) Yves Caniou (Visiting Scientist, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) Judit Gimenez (Visiting Scientist, Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Sameer Shende (Visiting Scientist, University of...