NCT04554264

Complicated Grief in ICU in the Aftermath of COVID-19

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

An increased proportion of deaths occur in the intensive care unit (ICU). Some amenable factors such as end-of-life practices may contribute to complicated grief. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, visitor restrictions in health care facilities have been implemented. Families were also unable to implement usual funerals. The investigators hypothesize that these policies and practices may impact grief during covid-19 pandemic. The aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of complicated grief after death of a relative in the ICU during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Conditions

• Complicated Grief
• Intensive Care
• Covid19

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	questionnaire	Inventory of Complicate Grief (ICG) score in relative from patients who died in ICU after SARS-Cov2 infection. This is the most commonly used assessment tool for complicated grief which focuses on different symptoms than depression or anxiety. A score \> 25 indicate complicated grief.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-09-01
• Primary completion: 2021-09-01
• Completion: 2022-09-01
• First posted: 2020-09-18
• Last updated: 2023-03-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France