NCT06977555

Communication With Mechanically Ventilated Intensive Care Patients

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 500 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Oslo University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The overarching aim of this multicenter study is to develop a multimodule training intervention (COMMEC-ICU) for nurses working in ICUs, to increase nurses skills and knowledge and then improve communication for mechanically ventilated ICU patients. The intervention will be implemented at the included ICUs and evaluated both on nurses in the ICU and patients. Patients with delirium will also be included.

Detailed description

The specific objectives of the research proposal are to: 1. Investigate ICU patients' perceptions of communication difficulties during mechanical ventilation, and evaluate the relationship between communication difficulties and symptom burden. 2. Describe ICU nurses' communication skills, communication techniques commonly used, and satisfaction with communication with patients. The results from objectives 1 and 2 are of relevance as such, but will also be used as a basis to develop the COMMEC-ICU and as a pre-intervention measure prior to implementation of the new program. 3. Further develop and implement COMMEC-ICU in the selected ICUs. 4. Evaluate the effect of COMMEC-ICU on a) ICU nurses after receiving the training program b) former ICU patients that have been treated in the ICUs with were the intervention have been implemented.

Conditions

• Critical Illness
• Communication
• Intensive Care Unit Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Communication Course and skills training	A multi module intervention where the nurses will learn about communication with mechanically ventilated patients will be developed. The investigators hypothesize that this intervention will: 1. make it easier for mechanically ventilated ICU patients to communicate their needs and symptoms during mechanical ventilation and to improve their symptom burden. 2. improve ICU nurses' skills in communicating with ICU patients who are unable to speak. This will potentially contribute to better communication with critically ill patients, including those being delirious. 3. improve ICU nurses´ satisfaction with their communication.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-08-25
• Primary completion: 2026-06-03
• Completion: 2032-12-30
• First posted: 2025-05-18
• Last updated: 2025-08-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway