Mobile App to Promote Family Caregiver Engagement in the Intensive Care Unit
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Family, Critical Care, Mobile Applications
In brief
The purpose of this randomized controlled pilot trial is to develop and test mobile app, Intensive Care Unit-Caregiver Activation Response, and Engagement (ICU-CARE). ICU-CARE provides a simulated learning environment to encourage family caregivers of mechanically ventilated patients to assess two patient symptoms, thirst and anxiety, and perform specific nonpharmacologic comfort measures to help alleviate patient symptom burden.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05157919
- Run by
- University of Nebraska
- People needed
- 18
- Starts
- 2020-01-06
- Expected to finish
- 2022-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2024-01-03
Who can join
Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adult Caregivers of mechanically ventilated ICU patients who are:
- Age 19 or older
- Able to understand English
- Able and willing to use the hospital-provided tablet devices
- Can view images on a screen and hear audio through a standard headset
- Have basic reading skills and the ability to read aloud
- Critically ill patients in the ICU who are:
- Age 19 or older
- Mechanically ventilated
- Expected to require> 72 consecutive hours of mechanical ventilation during their ICU stay
- Calm, cooperative (a Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale score between -5 and +1)
- Able to reliably report symptoms of thirst and anxiety per nursing assessment
- Have no documented hearing deficits
- Have a designated caregiver who visits frequently (daily for a minimum of 1 hour)
You may not qualify if…
- Adult Caregivers of mechanically ventilated ICU patients who are:
- Caregivers of patients who are not currently undergoing mechanical ventilation
- Caregivers of patients who are not calm, cooperative (a Richmond Agitation- - Sedation Scale score between +2 and +4),
- Caregivers of patients who cannot reliably report symptoms of thirst and anxiety
- Caregivers of patients who have a documented hearing deficit.
- Caregivers who do not visit the patient frequently (at least once per day for a minimum of 1 hour as described by nursing staff)
- Critically ill patients in the ICU who are:
- Recovering from any of the following surgeries: Glossectomy, Maxillectomy, Neck Dissection, Facial/neck flap
- Receiving aggressive ventilator support such as positive end expiratory pressure> 15cm of water, prone ventilation
- Not alert per nursing assessment (Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale Score +2 or greater)
- Severe cognition or communication problems (i.e. coma as the main reason for intubation, dementia, severe delirium)
- Deafness
Where it is running
- Nebraska Medicine — Omaha, Nebraska, United States
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