NCT02940028

ICU Experience in Family Members

ICU Experience Among Family Members of ICU Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 130 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Intermountain Health Care, Inc. · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The ICU is a stressful and challenging place for patients and their families. Many family members experience anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder during and after their ICU experience. The investigators are studying post-traumatic growth in this study. Post-traumatic growth (PTG) is a set of positive changes that occurs after a challenging or difficult life experience. This study investigates the effects of expressive writing on positive changes that occur after a difficult experience. PTG will be compared between the intervention group receiving the expressive writing intervention and the control group (non-expressive or fact based writing).

Conditions

• Post-Traumatic Growth, Psychological

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Expressive writing	Brief expressive writing intervention
BEHAVIORAL	Control writing	Brief fact-based writing exercise.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-04-29
• Primary completion: 2020-12-01
• Completion: 2021-04-01
• First posted: 2016-10-20
• Last updated: 2020-06-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States