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October 23, 2025HealthcareOpen Access

Hostility in the ICU Waiting Room: Extrapunitive and Intropunitive Reactions Among Family Members

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ZKZoe KonstantiFTFotios TatsisKSKonstantinos V. Stamatis

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Overview

Cross-sectional study shows that anxiety and self-criticism predict hostility in ICU families, indicating the need for targeted interventions.

Key Points

  • Hostility in ICU families is linked to demographic factors, such as education and age, affecting their emotional state.
  • Higher self-criticism and anxiety correlate with greater hostility in family members of critically ill patients.
  • Analysis utilized multivariate regression to assess the effects of education and demographic differences on hostility levels.
  • Understanding these patterns may help tailor interventions to reduce conflict and address emotions in the ICU waiting room.

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Konstanti et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68f9f86eb2c35e10cc4e3bbchttps://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13202650
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