{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,13]],"date-time":"2026-07-13T16:10:11Z","timestamp":1783959011913,"version":"3.55.0"},"reference-count":9,"publisher":"Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)","issue":"7","content-domain":{"domain":["lww.com","ovid.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026,7]]},"abstract":"\n Objectives:<\/jats:title>\n Examine ICU caregivers\u2019 experience of patient-related financial strain and its association with caregiver psychological distress (i.e., posttraumatic stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms) and healthcare perceptions (i.e., medical mistrust, decisional regret).<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Design:<\/jats:title>\n Cross-sectional secondary analysis using baseline data from an ongoing, multicenter randomized controlled trial intervention study (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT05587517).<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Setting:<\/jats:title>\n Three medical ICU sites in the United States.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Subjects:<\/jats:title>\n \n Family caregivers (\n n<\/jats:italic>\n = 97) of patients in medical ICUs admitted from October 2022 to December 2025, with a mean age of 52.32 years, of whom 67 (69.1%) were female, and 42 (43.3%) were the spouse\/partner of the patient.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Interventions:<\/jats:title>\n None.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Measurements and Main Results:<\/jats:title>\n \n Caregivers completed measures assessing degree of difficulty paying for patient medical care, posttraumatic stress symptoms, anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, medical mistrust, and decisional regret. Analyses found 63.9% participants reported difficulty paying for patient medical care and that financial strain was positively associated with severity of posttraumatic stress symptoms (\n r<\/jats:italic>\n = 0.35;\n p<\/jats:italic>\n < 0.001; 95% CI, 0.15\u20130.52), anxiety symptoms (\n r<\/jats:italic>\n = 0.22;\n p<\/jats:italic>\n < 0.05; 95% CI, 0.02\u20130.41), depressive symptoms (\n r<\/jats:italic>\n = 0.27;\n p<\/jats:italic>\n < 0.01; 95% CI, 0.07\u20130.45), decisional regret (\n r<\/jats:italic>\n = 0.30;\n p<\/jats:italic>\n < 0.05; 95% CI, 0.03\u20130.52), and medical mistrust (\n r<\/jats:italic>\n = 0.30;\n p<\/jats:italic>\n < 0.01; 95% CI, 0.10\u20130.48).\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n Over half of ICU caregivers endorsed difficulty paying for patient medical care. 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