NCT06208332

The "What Is Important to Us" Communication Intervention Pilot Clinical Trial

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 160 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Seattle Children's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this study is to conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) of a photo-narrative communication intervention developed by our study team with patients/parents of children with severe neurological impairment (SNI) and their pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) clinicians to assess feasibility, acceptability, and early efficacy.

Detailed description

Pilot randomized controlled trial of the "What Is Important to Us" communication intervention. Parents of children with severe neurological impairment in the ICU and their clinicians will be enrolled at the time of the child's ICU admission (baseline) and complete pre-intervention surveys before randomization. Intervention-arm parents and clinicians will complete the "What Is Important to Us" intervention. Post-intervention (within 1 week of ICU discharge) surveys will be completed by parents and clinicians. The control-arm parents will receive usual care (including standard psychosocial supports such as social work). Control-arm parents and clinicians will complete study surveys at the same timepoints. Semi-structured interviews will be completed with intervention-arm parents and clinicians following survey completion to guide further intervention enhancements and future work.

Conditions

• Critical Illness
• Neurologic Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	"What Is Important to Us" Communication Intervention	The "What Is Important to Us" intervention is a photo-narrative invention that prompts parents to select a total of 1-3 photos that are then displayed at their child's ICU bedside representing: 1) who is important in our family; 2) what strengthens us as parents; 3) how we know our child is feeling well; and 4) what makes our child's hospitalization easier. Parents are encouraged to discuss the pictures with clinicians caring for their child. Clinicians caring for the child are sent the photos electronically along with suggested discussion prompts to use with parents..

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-02-10
• Primary completion: 2027-01-01
• Completion: 2027-05-15
• First posted: 2024-01-17
• Last updated: 2026-02-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States