NCT03808350

Family Procedural Presence

Stress and Engagement Surrounding ICU Procedures Among Patients, Families and Clinicians

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Intermountain Health Care, Inc. · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study seeks to determine the effect of a quality improvement policy regarding allowing family members to remain in a patient's room during ICU procedures. The investigators hypothesized that our change in policy to invite family members to remain during procedures will improve patient \& family engagement and improve long term psychological outcomes after an ICU admission. The study also seeks to determine if inviting family members to remain in a patient's room during ICU procedures will not increase clinician stress.

Detailed description

This is a research study about the effect of a quality improvement policy change regarding family presence at ICU procedures on family and patient engagement, psychological outcomes and stress levels in clinicians. In the study, ICU patients, their family members and ICU clinicians will be surveyed regarding these outcomes, with some surveys obtained prior to a policy change and a second set during a second time period after policy change. The patients and family members will be asked survey questions after the procedure and 3 months later. This study will also evaluate the change in clinician stress related to this policy change, and clinicians will also answer survey questions.

Conditions

• Patient and Family Engagement

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Families Invited to Be Present at Procedures	Family members will be invited (but not required) to remain in the ICU room during procedures, if patients agree
OTHER	Placebo/Control	Family members will not be invited to remain in the ICU room

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-14
• Primary completion: 2019-03-31
• Completion: 2024-09-30
• First posted: 2019-01-17
• Last updated: 2022-04-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States