Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms Clinical Trial
Official title:
A Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Effect of Nurse Led Follow up After Being a Patient in the Intensive Care Unit.
To investigate the effect of nurse led follow up talks to prevent posttraumatic stress (PTS)
symptoms and improve quality of life and sence of coherence after an intensive care unit
(ICU) stay.
Secondly:
Investigate level of psychological distress, quality of life, hope and work participation in
ICU patients after an ICU stay and factors associated with these outcomes.
The ICU patient experiences total dependence on health care professionals and technical
devices. Some patients report unpleasant memories such as pain, feeling helpless, or
delusional experiences from the ICU stay and many report physical or mental symptoms after
discharge from the ICU. Return to work rate after ICU treatment differs. Most ICU patients
receive analgesics and sedatives to relieve pain and discomfort during the stay. Thus many
patients have few memories from their time being critically ill. For patients with few
memories from the ICU stay this represents an interruption in the patient's life history.
Since personal identity is influenced by the stories we tell about ourselves, loss of memory
from a period with critical illness might be experienced as a threat towards self-confidence
and sense of coherence. Some patients with traumatic memories from the ICU develop PTS
symptoms after discharge.
In order to help the earlier ICU patient to achieve a life with less physical and mental
complaints, some ICUs have established a follow up program in outpatient clinics after
discharge from hospital, but there is sparse evidence of the effectiveness of this
intervention, and what type of follow up that best help the patients.
The primary aim of the study is to:
Investigate if a group of previous intensive care patients receiving nurse led follow up
talks three times after discharge from the ICU have less post traumatic stress symptoms,
pain, increased sense of coherence and, work participation and health related quality of life
(HRQL) three, six and twelve months after discharge from the ICU compared to a control group
receiving standard care.
Secondary aim:
Investigate level and predictors of anxiety, depression, PTS symptoms, hope, pain, HRQOL and
work participation in intensive care patients ICU patients first year after discharge from
ICU.
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| Status | Clinical Trial | Phase | |
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| Enrolling by invitation |
NCT04394455 -
Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Versus Crisis Intervention Therapy Through Telepsychiatry on Psychiatric Symptoms
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N/A |