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Reducing Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Related Anxiety Through a Structured Information Program

NCT00151554 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 140

Last updated 2010-07-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

According to current evidence and psychological theorizing, the provision of information seems to be a promising way to reduce the anxiety of patients that is related to their scheduled ICU stay. An ICU-specific information program will be investigated in a randomized controlled clinical trial involving 120 patients undergoing elective open heart surgery and 20 patients undergoing abdominal surgery. It is expected that the patients in the test group will experience less anxiety and ICU related discomfort than patients in the control group.

Conditions

  • Heart Diseases

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

ICU-specific information program

The intervention group receives a standardized information program with specific procedural, sensory and coping information about the ICU in addition to standard information given by surgeons and anesthetists.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Pflegeverbund Mitte-Süd

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Stabstelle Pflegeforschung

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Institut für Theoretische Chirurgie

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Klinik für Herzchirurgie

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Klinik für VTG-Chirurgie

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Philipps University Marburg

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thomas Neubert, PhD · Stabstelle Pflegeforschung, Universitätsklinikum Marburg

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-02-28
Primary Completion
2006-09-30
Completion
2006-12-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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