NCT04279171

Near-death Experience in ICU Survivors

Incidence of Near-death Experiences Among Patients Who Survived a Critical Illness

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 126 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Liege · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This observational study aims to describe the incidence of near-death experience (NDE) in patients who survived a critical illness. In order to help determine the potential risk factors of NDE, dissociative status and spirituality are also investigated. Finally, in patients who experienced NDE, a magnetic resonance imaging is performed to search for any structural modifications.

Conditions

• Critical Illness
• Near-Death Experience

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Greyson NDE scale	Questionnaire to detect occurence of NDE. A NDE is identified if score \> or = 7/32
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	DES dissociation scale	Screening for dissociative symptoms
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	WHOQOL-SRPB	WHOQOL-SRPB is an instrument developed to evaluate how spirituality, religiosity and personal beliefs (SRPB) are related to quality of life in health and health care.
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	cerebral magnetic resonance imaging	Types of images to be acquired: T1, T2, Diffusion Weighted Imaging-DWI, Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery and spectroscopy

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-06-01
• Primary completion: 2021-06-30
• Completion: 2021-06-30
• First posted: 2020-02-21
• Last updated: 2022-04-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium