Clinical trial NCT05659485: Measuring Family Engagement in Care (The FAME Study)
Official title: Measuring Family Engagement in Care (The FAME Study)
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Family Engagement
Patient-centered Care
Critical Care
Keywords: Family
Engagement
Family engagement
Family-centered care
Measures
Instruments
Intensive care unit
Lead sponsor: Lady Davis Institute
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Jewish General Hospital
name: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
First posted: 2022-12-21
Enrollment: 198
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Family members, aged 18 years old or older, of patients admitted to intensive care units. The term "Family member" includes anyone that has a biological, legal, or emotional relationship with the patient and the patient would like to be involved in their care.

Brief summary: There are currently no validated tools to specifically measure family engagement in the intensive care unit (ICU). To address this gap, an interdisciplinary team developed a novel instrument to measure family engagement in the ICU. This will be a prospective observational cohort with an embedded qualitative study to validate the FAMily Engagement (FAME) instrument in the ICU setting. This study will also evaluate the association between family activation, engagement, and family-centred outcomes, and exploring factors (age, relationship, sex, gender, race/ethnicity) that may influence family engagement in the ICU.

Detailed description: This will be a prospective observational cohort study of 198 family members in the ICUs of 4 Canadian hospitals in 3 provinces (Alberta, Ontario, and Quebec) over a 12-week period. These sites were chosen due to their urban setting and distant geographic range to capture differing practice patterns, a higher percentage of racialized patients, and language and cultural differences. The target recruitment is 50 family members from each participating site. A "family member" will be considered anyone with a biological, legal, or emotional relationship with the patient and whom the patient would want involved in their care.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Family member of patient admitted to the intensive care units
* Able to participate in English or French
* Age 18 years old or older

Exclusion Criteria:

* ICU stays less than 24 hours
* Another family member has already participated in the study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Family engagement in care (as measured by FAME)
timeFrame: Within 24 hours of enrolment
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Family activation (as measured by FAM-Activate)
timeFrame: Within 24 hours of enrolment
measure: Family mental health (as measured by HADS)
timeFrame: Within 2 weeks of hospital discharge.
measure: Family care satisfaction (as measured by FS-ICU 24)
timeFrame: Within 2 weeks of hospital discharge.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Calgary
country: Canada
facility: Foothills Medical Centre
state: Alberta
city: Toronto
country: Canada
facility: St. Michael's Hospital
state: Ontario
city: Montreal
country: Canada
facility: Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)
state: Quebec
city: Montreal
country: Canada
facility: Montreal General Hospital
state: Quebec
city: Montreal
country: Canada
facility: Royal Victoria Hospital
state: Quebec
city: Montréal
country: Canada
facility: Jewish General Hospital / Lady Davis Institute
state: Quebec
Study officials:
affiliation: Lady Davis Institute
name: Michael J Goldfarb, MD MSc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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citation: Goldfarb M, Bibas L, Burns K. Patient and Family Engagement in Care in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Can J Cardiol. 2020 Jul;36(7):1032-1040. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2020.03.037. Epub 2020 Mar 31.
citation: Goldfarb MJ, Bechtel C, Capers Q 4th, de Velasco A, Dodson JA, Jackson JL, Kitko L, Pina IL, Rayner-Hartley E, Wenger NK, Gulati M; American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology; Council on Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing; Council on Lifelong Congenital Heart Disease and Heart Health in the Young; Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention; Council on Hypertension; Council on the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease; and Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health. Engaging Families in Adult Cardiovascular Care: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022 May 17;11(10):e025859. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.122.025859. Epub 2022 Apr 21.
citation: Goldfarb MJ, Bibas L, Bartlett V, Jones H, Khan N. Outcomes of Patient- and Family-Centered Care Interventions in the ICU: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Crit Care Med. 2017 Oct;45(10):1751-1761. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000002624.
citation: Goldfarb M, Debigare S, Foster N, Soboleva N, Desrochers F, Craigie L, Burns KEA. Development of a Family Engagement Measure for the Intensive Care Unit. CJC Open. 2022 Aug 5;4(11):1006-1011. doi: 10.1016/j.cjco.2022.07.015. eCollection 2022 Nov.