Building Relationship, Improving Dialogue, and Growing Empathy (BRIDGE): An Intervention to Support Decision Making for Critically Ill Children
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Conditions studied: Decision Making, Neonatal Critical Illness, Pediatric Critical Illness
In brief
Parents of young children in the intensive care unit may be faced with decisions about their child's care. The Building Relationship, Improving Dialogue, and Growing Empathy (BRIDGE) intervention was designed to help support parents as they make decisions for their child and communicate with the health care team. The main questions this study aims to answer are: 1. Do parents who receive the BRIDGE intervention report being better prepared to make decisions for their child? 2. Do parents who receive the BRIDGE intervention report less regret about the decisions they made for their child? Participants will complete surveys at baseline and approximately 2 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months following enrollment. Some participants will also participate in interviews about their experiences.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07390773
- Run by
- Duke University
- People needed
- 495
- Starts
- 2026-07-01
- Expected to finish
- 2028-10-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-05-22
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Child inclusion criteria will include:
- Age < 5 years
- Admission to a critical care unit within the preceding 14 days
- An anticipated serious health care decision, defined as a decision about initiating, not initiating, or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment and/or a decision about major intervention.
- Parent inclusion criteria will include:
- Age ≥ 18 years
- The ability speak English or Spanish.
- Clinician inclusion criteria will include
- Clinical team member of an enrolled child and parent in the intervention group
- Completion of residency or equivalent training.
You may not qualify if…
- Children, parents or clinicians who do not meet the inclusion criteria above.
Where it is running
- University of California San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States
- Johns Hopkins University — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Duke University — Durham, North Carolina, United States
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