Caregivers for the critically ill often suffer depression that lingers long after their loved one's hospital stay ends, new research suggests.
"Caregivers to patients who have spent at least seven days in the ICU [intensive care unit] commonly experience symptoms of depression for the full first year after ICU discharge," said study leader Jill Cameron. She is a researcher at the University of Toronto.
"A large portion of them improve over the year, but a [sub] group does not," Cameron said.
Surprisingly, the ones who are most depressed "are not necessarily caring for the sickest patients," she added.
[For more of this story, written by Kathleen Doheny, go to https://consumer.healthday.com...ll-study-710818.html]
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