NCT07390773

Building Relationship, Improving Dialogue, and Growing Empathy (BRIDGE): An Intervention to Support Decision Making for Critically Ill Children

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 495 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Duke University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Parents of young children in the intensive care unit may be faced with decisions about their child's care. The Building Relationship, Improving Dialogue, and Growing Empathy (BRIDGE) intervention was designed to help support parents as they make decisions for their child and communicate with the health care team. The main questions this study aims to answer are: 1. Do parents who receive the BRIDGE intervention report being better prepared to make decisions for their child? 2. Do parents who receive the BRIDGE intervention report less regret about the decisions they made for their child? Participants will complete surveys at baseline and approximately 2 weeks, 6 months, and 12 months following enrollment. Some participants will also participate in interviews about their experiences.

Conditions

• Decision Making
• Neonatal Critical Illness
• Pediatric Critical Illness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	BRIDGE intervention	The BRIDGE intervention includes a paper-based tool that includes an introduction to decision-making, a values clarification exercise, and a question prompt list. The tool additionally prompts parents to share how they define decision-relevant concepts like quality of life and suffering for their child. The completed tool is shared with the health care team in the electronic health record.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-02-01
• Primary completion: 2028-08-01
• Completion: 2028-10-01
• First posted: 2026-02-05
• Last updated: 2026-02-05

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United States