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Family Information Management in the Intensive Care Unit

NCT02931851 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2022-06-14

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Summary

Relatives in intensive care units (ICU) are important partners in decision-making in the treatment of critically ill patients and provide a significant resource in the care and recovery of patients. Therefore, a professional, educational intervention targeting these caregivers may have fundamental benefits with little risk. As in other fields, information is searched in the internet, but this unselected information is often overwhelming and of little use in this context.

Symptoms of anxiety, stress and depression are common in affected relatives. The majority of family members report some level of anxiety, depression and stress, sometimes even resulting in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Importantly, an association between lack of information and post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD has been reported. The large number of potentially affected families poses a particular challenge to healthcare and may cause substantial secondary costs to national economy.

Conditions

  • Extended Family

Interventions

OTHER

ICU Families Website

Professionally developed website for relatives of ICU patients

OTHER

Placebo

Standard Information provided online

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medical University of Vienna

    collaborator OTHER

  • Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern

    collaborator OTHER

  • Medical University of Graz

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Karin Amrein, MD, MSc · Medical University of Graz

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-05-01
Primary Completion
2020-12-15
Completion
2020-12-15

Countries

  • Austria
  • Switzerland

Study Locations

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