Measuring Family Engagement in Care (The FAME Study)

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Conditions studied: Family Engagement, Patient-centered Care, Critical Care

In brief

There are currently no validated tools to specifically measure family engagement in the intensive care unit (ICU). To address this gap, an interdisciplinary team developed a novel instrument to measure family engagement in the ICU. This will be a prospective observational cohort with an embedded qualitative study to validate the FAMily Engagement (FAME) instrument in the ICU setting. This study will also evaluate the association between family activation, engagement, and family-centred outcomes, and exploring factors (age, relationship, sex, gender, race/ethnicity) that may influence family engagement in the ICU.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05659485

Run by

Lady Davis Institute

People needed

198

Starts

2023-01-31

Expected to finish

2025-12-30

Last updated by the study team

2025-02-13

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Family member of patient admitted to the intensive care units
• Able to participate in English or French
• Age 18 years old or older

You may not qualify if…

• ICU stays less than 24 hours
• Another family member has already participated in the study

Where it is running

• Jewish General Hospital / Lady Davis Institute — Montreal, Quebec, Canada (enrolling)
• Montreal General Hospital — Montreal, Quebec, Canada (enrolling)
• Royal Victoria Hospital — Montreal, Quebec, Canada (enrolling)
• Foothills Medical Centre — Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• St. Michael's Hospital — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) — Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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