One Year Later: Family Members of Patients with COVID-19 Experience Persistent Symptoms of PTSD.
Melanie E AmblerSarah RhoadsRyan PetersonYing JinPriscilla ArmstrongPriscilla CollierMargaret Hope CruseNicholas CsikeszMay HuaRuth A EngelbergKarin HalvorsonJoanna HeywoodMelissa LeeKeely LikoskyMegan MayerDonald McGuirlMarc MossElizabeth NielsenOlivia ReaWendy TongJames H WykowskiStephanie YuRenee D StapletonJ Randall CurtisTimothy AmassPublished in: Annals of the American Thoracic Society (2022)
One year later, some family members of patients with COVID-19 continue to experience significant symptoms of PTSD. Further studies are needed to better understand how various differences contribute to increased risk for these symptoms.