Clinical trial NCT04305353: Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Diary Project
Official title: Implementing an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Diary Program at a Large Academic Medical Center: Results From a Randomized Control Trial Evaluating Psychological Morbidity Associated With Critical Illness
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: PTSD
Post ICU Syndrome
Keywords: psychocognitive morbidity
narrative medicine
ICU-related PTSD
Post-ICU Syndrome (PICS)
ICU Diary
Lead sponsor: Tulane University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: The Arnold P. Gold Foundation
First posted: 2020-03-12
Enrollment: 60
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Psychological morbidity in both patients and family members related to the intensive care unit (ICU) experience is an often overlooked, and potentially persistent, healthcare problem recognized by the Society of Critical Care Medicine as Post-intensive Care Syndrome (PICS). ICU diaries are an intervention increasingly under study with potential to mitigate ICU-related psychological morbidity, include ICU-related PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), depression and anxiety.

Detailed description: The investigators compared the efficacy of the ICU diary, prospectively written by third-parties during the patient's intensive care course, versus education-alone, on reducing acute PTSD symptoms after discharge. Patients with an ICU stay greater than 72 hours, and who were intubated and mechanically ventilated over 24 hours, were recruited and randomized to either receive a diary at bedside with psychoeducation, or psychoeducation alone. Intervention patients received their ICU diary within the first week of admission into the intensive care unit. Psychometric testing with IES-R, PHQ-8, HADS and GAD-7 was conducted at weeks 4, 12, and 24 after ICU discharge.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* admitted to the intensive care unit for at least 72 hours
* sedated and mechanically ventilated for at least 24 hours.
* available over-the-phone, up to 6 months post-ICU discharge

Exclusion Criteria:

* any patients who do not voluntarily agree to participate
* not fluent in the English language
* patients who have stayed in the ICU for less than 72 hours
* patients who have been sedated and mechanically ventilated for less than 24 hours
* patients with pre-existing severe psychotic illness, bipolar disorder, substance use disorder, PTSD, stroke, traumatic brain injury, neurocognitive impairment, or intellectual disability
* patients with no phone number or reliable contact information for the sake of follow-up
* prisoners
* pregnant patients

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change in PTSD symptoms
timeFrame: at baseline (within one week of ICU admission) versus twelve-weeks post-ICU discharge
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Change in Hospital-associated Depression and Anxiety symptoms
timeFrame: at baseline (within one week of ICU admission) versus twelve-weeks post-ICU discharge
measure: Change in Depression symptoms
timeFrame: at baseline (within one week of ICU admission) versus twelve-weeks post-ICU discharge
measure: Change in Anxiety symptoms
timeFrame: at baseline (within one week of ICU admission) versus twelve-weeks post-ICU discharge
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New Orleans
country: United States
facility: Tulane University School of Medicine
state: Louisiana
Study officials:
affiliation: Tulane University School of Medicine
name: Rachel Hammer, MD, MFA
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Tulane University School of Medicine
name: George Sayde, MD, MPH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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