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The Family Perspectives Project Pilot Trial

NCT06039501 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2025-06-15

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Summary

The purpose of the study is to conduct a pilot randomized trial of a program designed to enhance equitable communication and emotional support for families of critically ill patients in order to determine feasibility, acceptability, and participant experience with the program.

The primary study procedures include: chart abstraction, questionnaires, meetings with ICU support counselors, meetings with ICU physicians and care team, audio recordings of these meetings (optional), and interviews with study participants (optional).

Study participants include: 70 critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure (enrolled with the consent of their Legally Authorized Representative) and their primary surrogate decision makers as well as ICU support counselors and ICU care teams (physicians, nurses, social workers).

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Family Perspective Program

The program involves regular meetings between families and an ICU support counselor. The ICU support counselor is a trained expert in providing culturally competent emotional and/or spiritual support. The ICU support counselor will support families and also learn and summarize family perspectives in a standardized report. ICU care team members will be prompted to perspective take as they review reports prior to regular routine meetings between families and the ICU care team.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Palliative Care Research Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • Matthew Modes

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Matthew Modes, MD, MPP, MS · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-10-13
Primary Completion
2026-10-31
Completion
2026-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT06039501 on ClinicalTrials.gov