Adverse outcomes of critical illness from a dyadic perspective

Abstract

Physical and psychological consequences are common in surivors of severe sepsis. Spouses are also affected from such traumatic experience. As a couple, interactions between the yads patient–spouse necessarily occur during recovery, which ould positively or negatively influence the outcomes of both atients’ and spouses’. This situation has led some researchers o consider the dyad patient–spouse as a unit of analysis in CU research. To study the interaction between two people (a yad), the Actor Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) has been roposed.1 The APIM is a model designed to explore dyadic relations hat involve the concept of interdependence in two-person elationships (actor and partner).2 The model can be used to invesigate interactions and measure the impact of one person’s (actor)