NCT02684877

Fatigue One Year After ICU Discharge

Fatigue in Intensive Care Survivors One Year After Discharge

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 56 (actual)
• Sponsor: Università degli Studi di Ferrara · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators contacted consecutive adult patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) and mechanically ventilated for at least 72 hours to invite them to an interview at hospital. The investigators administered Mini Mental Status Examination, Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy scale for Fatigue (Facit- F) and Short form 36 questionnaires to the consenting patients.

Detailed description

Fatigue is one of the most commonly symptoms reported by patients. There are many causes of pathological fatigue including mental and physical, both neurological (central and peripheral) and non-neurological diseases. Among the last ones, cancer, infections and drugs are factors associated with fatigue, although the mechanism of how non-neurological diseases cause fatigue is not clear. Evidence exists to suggest that patients who have been critically ill continue to face a multitude of physical, psychological and social difficulties in the long term after discharge. As far as fatigue is concerned, greater than 50% of Intensive Care Unit survivors overall reported lowered energy levels and fatigue in the first year after discharge.

Conditions

• Fatigue

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaire

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2015-11-01
• Completion: 2015-11-01
• First posted: 2016-02-18
• Last updated: 2016-05-02