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ICU Experience in Family Members

NCT02940028 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 130

Last updated 2020-06-18

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Summary

The ICU is a stressful and challenging place for patients and their families. Many family members experience anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder during and after their ICU experience. The investigators are studying post-traumatic growth in this study. Post-traumatic growth (PTG) is a set of positive changes that occurs after a challenging or difficult life experience. This study investigates the effects of expressive writing on positive changes that occur after a difficult experience. PTG will be compared between the intervention group receiving the expressive writing intervention and the control group (non-expressive or fact based writing).

Conditions

  • Post-Traumatic Growth, Psychological

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Expressive writing

Brief expressive writing intervention

BEHAVIORAL

Control writing

Brief fact-based writing exercise.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Intermountain Health Care, Inc.

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ramona Hopkins, PhD · Intermountain Health Care, Inc.

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-04-29
Primary Completion
2020-12-31
Completion
2021-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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