NCT05421182

Psychological Impact of Medical Evacuations on Families of Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Unit for Severe COVID-19

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Metropole Savoie · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

At the "Métropole Savoie" hospital, to deal with the daily influx of severe patients during the second wave of COVID-19, 23 patients had to be transferred away from their home city and far from their families as part of a medical evacuation (EVASAN). The purpose of the study is to investigate whether there is an association between medical evacuations and the occurrence of psychological disorders such as post-traumatic stress, anxiety or depression occurring within 6 to 10 months in families of evacuated patients. The investigators want to compare the prevalence of psychological disorders in the families of patients evacuated for a serious form of COVID-19 (cases) compared to that of families of patients not evacuated (controls) hospitalized for a serious form of COVID-19.

Detailed description

The case group is trusted person of evacuated patient. The control group is trusted person of not evacuated patient. The trusted person of the group control will be matched to trusted patient of the case group on : their relationship with the patient (spouse/ascendant/descendant/other) and on criteria specific to the patient: sex, age range ( \<75 years or ≥ 75 years), invasive ventilation and becoming at 3 months post COVID-19 (survivor / non survivor)

Conditions

• COVID-19
• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Revised Impact of Event Scale	to measure the affect of routine life stress,everyday traumas and acute stress
OTHER	Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale	to measure anxiety and depression
OTHER	36-Item Short Form Survey	SF-36 is a set of generic, coherent, and easily administered quality-of-life measures.
OTHER	satisfaction survey	satisfaction survey of the trusted person about the communication with ICU personal
OTHER	semi-directed interview with trusted person on the general experience of the patient's medical evacuation	interview of the trusted person about the medical evacuation : evacuation announcement;organization of the medical evacuation,; concerns related to evacuations;reception and information by the center admitting the evacuated patient; arrangements of visit, patient repatriated
OTHER	semi-directed interview with trusted person on the general experience of hospitalization in intensive care	interview of the trusted person about ICU hospitalization: reception in ICU; ICU organization; concerns related to ICU hospitalization, information and communication with ICU staff, arrangements of visit, context of ICU discharge

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-06-30
• Primary completion: 2021-12-30
• Completion: 2021-12-30
• First posted: 2022-06-16
• Last updated: 2024-08-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France