Eligibility

Eligible Ages

Between 18 Years and 70 Years

Eligible Genders

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Must anticipate serving in a Caregiver role after the patient is discharged (A. Must
be either a family member or close friend of a patient who has been admitted to the
trauma/critical care service ICU B. Must anticipate spending time with the patient in
a caregiver or other supportive role (e.g.,emotional, social, financial) after the
patient is discharged)

- Caregiver and patient must report English as a primary language

- patient and Caregiver must be able to provide informed consent

- Caregiver must be able to provide at least two forms of contact information

- Trauma Patient directly admitted to the ICU (Primary cause of admission is trauma,
Injury must include trauma to the head/brain, Admitted directly to the hospital
,Patient admission of at least 48 hours , Patient is currently admitted to the ICU
,Patient is expected to survive more than 96 hours at 48 hours after admission,Patient
has an abbreviated injury score greater than 3 (severe, critical, maximum) ,Fluent in
English)

- Trauma patient must be able t communicate verbally

Exclusion

- Does not anticipate serving in a Caregiver role after the patient is discharged

- Caregiver is not a close friend or family member of the patient who has been admitted
to the ICU

- Caregiver does not expect to serve in a supportive role to the patient

- caregiver does not meet inclusion criteria as stated above

- Patient is not currently admitted to the ICU and or is not expected to remain in the
ICU for 48 hours

- Patient is not expected to survive more than 96 hours

- Patient is not expected to require assistance prior to discharge

- Patient is not between 18 and 65 years of age