Associations Between Family-Assessed… : Critical Care Medicine
ICUs at two academically affiliated medical centers in Taiwan. Patients/Participants: Three hundred nine family surrogates responsible for decision-making for critically ill patients at high risk of death (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II scores > 20) from a disease. Interventions: None. Measurements and Main Results: Participants were assessed by the depression and anxiety subscales of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Impact of Event Scale-Revised, 11 items of the Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) scale, and the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey at 1, 3, 6, 13, 18, and 24 months post-loss. We simultaneously examined associations of four QODD latent classes with physical and mental health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and symptoms of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and PGD assessed over 24 bereavement months using multivariate hierarchical linear modeling. Surrogates’ distinct QODD latent classes assessed a