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A randomized clinical trial 1:1 among relatives of patients admitted to an intensive care unit, the intervention group will be composed by family members who receive a printed brochure and will be encouraged to visit a website detailed information and plain language about the ICU environment and the critically ill patient characteristics. The primary outcome will be the impact of orientations on symptoms of post-traumatic stress, assessed by the IES-R scale. Secondary outcome measures will include symptoms of anxiety and depression at the end of 7 days and after 3 months of follow-up by the HADS scales, the degree of satisfaction of the relatives, through the FS-ICU scale, as well as the association of resilience, through the CD-RISC scale, with the symptoms of anxiety and depression.


Clinical Trial Description

The hospitalization of one family member may be responsible for the generation of anxiety and depression, especially if the patient environment for the intensive care unit (ICU). The orientation of family members, through website and brochure, seems to have effect of reducing these symptoms, however, there is a shortage of studies capable of such conduct. The focus of this study will be to evaluate the impact of family guidance in reducing symptoms of depression, acute stress and anxiety displayed by them, in addition to verifying the association between resilience.

A randomized clinical trial 1:1 among relatives of patients admitted to an intensive care unit, the randomization will be in blocks of different sizes and stratified according to the educational level of the familiar. Intervention group will be composed by family members who receive a printed brochure and will be encouraged to visit a website detailed information and plain language about the ICU environment (treatments, care, alarms, multidisciplinary team) and the critically ill patient characteristics (organic dysfunction, prognosis, palliative care, organ dysfunction). The family, of the control group, will not receive the printed brochure and are not encouraged to visit the website. After hospitalization of the patient in the ICU, the research team will have up to 48 hrs to evaluate the eligibility criteria of the next of kin of this patient. Primary outcome will be the impact of orientations on symptoms of post-traumatic stress, assessed by the IES-R scale. Secondary outcome measures will include symptoms of anxiety and depression at the end of 7 days and after 3 months of follow-up by the HADS scale, the degree of satisfaction of the relatives, through the FS-ICU scale, as well as the association of resilience, through the CD-RISC scale, with the symptoms of anxiety and depression The study will occur with families of patients admitted to the ICUs of Hospital Moinhos de Vento and Hospital Ernesto Dornelles. We will collect characteristics related to demographic, social, educational features, levels of resilience, religiosity and prior history of mood disorder, anxiety disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder, length of ICU stay, SAPS III, and ICU and hospital outcomes. ;


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NCT number NCT03812458
Study type Interventional
Source Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Contact Vitória Homem Machado
Phone 55 51 991022093
Email vitoriahomemmachado@gmail.com
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date December 10, 2019
Completion date December 10, 2020

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