NCT00798941

ICU Patient and Family Comfort Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate family-led interventions for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients' symptoms (i.e., pain and thirst) that will involve ICU patients' family members in the non-pharmacological management of these symptoms. This family involvement may help to ameliorate not only patients' symptoms but also the families' symptoms and promote family satisfaction with ICU care.

Conditions

• Pain
• Thirst
• Anxiety
• Satisfaction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	mouth care	mouth spray, mouth swab, moisturizer
BEHAVIORAL	pain intervention	music and massage

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-02-01
• Primary completion: 2010-01-01
• Completion: 2010-01-01
• First posted: 2008-11-27
• Last updated: 2010-07-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States