The timing and nature of the interviews in other studies also highlights a concern with recall. The
interviews were conducted very soon after patients were
discharged from critical care. This not only reinforces the
primacy of the critical care stay for the researchers, as
described above, but also a concern with the facts of
the experience as recalled by the informant rather than
the experience and its meaning for the individual in the
context of the whole illness-recovery trajectory. Two phenomenological
studies (Jablonski, 1994; Papathanassoglou and
Patiraki, 2003) that were interested in personal meaning as
a way of understanding rather than accurate recall, interviewed
patients 2—108 and 12—24 months after discharge
respectively. This clearly represents a longer-term view, but
one that is limited by the paucity of research. Storli et al.
(2008) conducted interviews with patients 10 years after discharge
from ICU since they were specifically interested in
living with long term memories.