Nurse-led psychological intervention after physical traumas: a randomized controlled trial

Journal of Clinical Medicine Research
Laila SkogstadØivind Ekeberg

Abstract

Emergency room nurses were trained to provide a short-term psychological intervention in physically injured patients with Impact of Event Scale (IES) scores > 20. The aims were to study the effects of the psychological intervention relative to usual care (UC). In a randomized controlled trial, psychological distress, daily functioning and the personality traits optimism/pessimism were compared with patients who received the UC. The interventions were provided 1 - 3 months after discharge. The IES scores were significantly reduced in both groups at 3 months (intervention: 41.1 - 28.6, P < 0.001 vs. UC: 35.4 - 26.2, P < 0.001), but not significantly different between groups. Baseline IES score was a significant predictor of IES scores at 3 (β = 0.4, P < 0.05) and 12 months (β = 0.3, P < 0.05), whereas overall daily functioning at 3 months predicted IES scores at 12 months (β = -0.5, P < 0.001). Patients receiving intervention became significantly more optimistic during the year, and had an increase in overall daily functioning from 3 to 12 months (P < 0.001). Patients declining intervention were more pessimistic and had lower daily functioning. Patients who talked with nurses with more training in psychological processing had a l...Continue Reading

Citations

Aug 20, 2019·The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews·Neil P RobertsJonathan I Bisson
Jan 26, 2018·Orthopaedic Nursing·Panagiota CopanitsanouVasileios Kechagias
May 31, 2019·The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery·Christopher H PhamCatherine M Kuza
Dec 20, 2019·European Journal of Psychotraumatology·Neil P RobertsJonathan I Bisson

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