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Addressing Palliative Care Needs Among Intensive Care Unit Family Members

NCT03506438 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 111

Last updated 2023-11-13

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Summary

The quality of palliative care is highly variable for many patients treated in intensive care units (ICUs) and their family members. To address these challenges, the investigators will test the impact of a mobile app designed to help families navigate ICU-based palliative care vs. usual care. The investigators hypothesize that the intervention will reduce patient/family member unmet palliative care needs and improve the quality of clinical-family communication in racially/ethnically diverse populations.

Conditions

  • Critical Illness
  • Family Members
  • Psychological Distress
  • Informal Caregivers
  • Palliative Care

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Needs-focused mobile app

A mobile web app designed to assist both ICU clinicians in addressing patient/family needs and families in reporting their unmet needs.

OTHER

Usual care

Usual ICU care as per the standards of the ICU attending

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Duke University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christopher Cox, MD' · Duke University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-04-10
Primary Completion
2022-02-08
Completion
2022-05-18

Countries

  • United States

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