NCT05939427

Improving Family Engagement in Acute Cardiovascular Care: The NGAGE Trial

Real-Time Feedback to Improve Family Engagement in Acute Cardiovascular Care

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 88 (actual)
• Sponsor: Lady Davis Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to assess if the NGAGE real-time feedback tool improves family engagement in family members of people admitted to an acute cardiac care unit The investigators will randomize 88 family members of people hospitalized in the acute cardiac ward in a 1:1 manner to either the NGAGE intervention or usual care. Family members will be eligible if the expected unit stay of their loved one is \>48 hours and if they can communicate in English or French. A family member is considered anyone with a biological, emotional, or legal relationship with the patient whom the patient wishes to be involved in their care. The primary outcome of the study will be the FAMily Engagement (FAME) score at hospital discharge. Secondary outcomes will be family mental health (by HADS score) and family care satisfaction (by FS-ICU score).

Conditions

• Family Engagement

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	NGAGE tool	Will have access to the NGAGE tool to learn about engaging in care and to request engagement activities.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-01
• Primary completion: 2024-11-01
• Completion: 2024-12-01
• First posted: 2023-07-11
• Last updated: 2025-02-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada