Improving Communication in the PICU: The Navigate Study

Improving Communication in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for Patients Facing Life-Changing Decisions: The Navigate Study

The project seeks to study the use of an navigator-based intervention called "PICU Supports." The study will test the impact of PICU Supports during and after PICU discharge on parent outcomes (satisfaction with decision making, decision regret, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress, health-related quality of life, and complicated bereavement) and on parent and healthcare team member assessments of communication and team collaboration.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Communication
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: PICU Supports; Other: Educational Brochure

Detailed Description

Parents of children admitted to the PICU often face challenging decisions. Research demonstrates deficiencies in communication in the PICU which could impact decision making. This study team has developed a navigator-based intervention call PICU Supports. PICU Supports aims to provide the following types of support to parents of patients in the PICU: emotional; communication (between healthcare team members and parents/families as well as among healthcare team members ); decision making; transitions out of the PICU (i.e. discharge transitions to a non-PICU hospital bed, a long term care facility, or home); and information. Support is accomplished by navigator engagement with parents and healthcare team members and the guided use of navigator supported ancillary tools provided to parents and healthcare team members as needed. During the patient's PICU stay, the navigator activities and use of ancillary tools is directed by the family's needs. Thus PICU Supports uses a predefined framework of activities and tools to provide individualized support directed by the needs of the parent and the patient situation. This research will test PICU Supports in the clinical setting. This will be accomplished by conducting a pilot study of PICU Supports at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago (Lurie Children's Hospital), followed by a randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing the intervention, PICU Supports, to a control, parental receipt of an educational brochure. The RCT will be conducted at Lurie Children's Hospital and at University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital (Comer Children's Hospital).

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 506
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Illinois
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
      • Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637
      • The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Case Patients

• patients < 18 years of age admitted to the PICU
• parents are English or Spanish-speakers and who:
• are likely to require PICU care for at least 24 hours (as determined by the PICU attending physician) or
• have a Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 (PIM2) score ≥ 4% (a PIM2 score predicts risk of mortality based on clinical data collected at the time of admission to the PICU)

Case patients will be included in the study if one of his/her parents agrees to participate in the study and signs a written consent form.

Parents of case patients

• Parent of an eligible case patient.
• PICU attending gives permission to approach the parent about the study.
• Parent is an English or Spanish speaker.
• Parent provides written consent for participation.

Healthcare Team Members for the pre-post assessment of team communication and focus group:

-This group will include as many clinicians in the following groups as possible (identified by the site principal investigator): PICU physicians (attendings and fellows); PICU bedside nurses; PICU Advance Practice Nurses (APNs); hospitalists; subspecialty physicians who consult on PICU patients; subspecialty APNs who consult on PICU patients; PICU respiratory therapist; PICU physical/occupational/speech therapists; and social workers (SWs), chaplains, and case managers who follow PICU patients.

Healthcare team members for the written feedback/assessment of the intervention:

-HTMs caring for the case patient at the time of PICU discharge: (PICU attending; PICU fellow; social worker (if involved); chaplain (if involved); bedside nurse; PICU resident, APN or hospitalist; and one to two subspecialty attendings)

Exclusion Criteria:

Exclusion criteria for parents of case patients:

• PICU attending does not give permission to approach the parent about the study.
• Parent is not an English or Spanish speaker.
• Parent does not provide written consent to participate.
• The case patient does not provide assent (if able to provide assent).

Exclusion criteria for Healthcare Team members:

-Healthcare team member that does not regularly care for patients in the PICU.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: PICU Supports; Participants will receive the PICU Supports intervention.	Other: PICU Supports; The PICU Supports intervention includes navigator activities and ancillary tools. The Navigator activities include: initial visits with the healthcare team members (HTMs) and parents; weekday visits with the parents and feedback to the HTMs as needed; coordination of weekly family meetings between the parents and HTMs; and support during transitions out of the unit. The ancillary tools include: a PICU handbook; a place for parents to keep track of events and their goals; a provider sheet to inform PICU HTMs about important parental issues, concerns or goals; a bedside communication log so parents know which non-PICU HTMs have visited; an end-of-life checklist; a bereavement packet for those whose child dies; and informational resources.
Active Comparator: Educational Brochure; Participants will receive an educational brochure about the pediatric intensive care unit.	Other: Educational Brochure; Parents will receive a short educational brochure with information about the pediatric intensive care unit.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Satisfaction with decision making (Percentage of "excellent" scores in the decision making domain of the Pediatric Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (pFS-ICU) questionnaire)	Percentage of "excellent" scores in the decision making domain of the Pediatric Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (pFS-ICU) questionnaire	3-5 weeks following PICU discharge

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Satisfaction with decision making (Percentage of "excellent" scores in the decision making domain of the Pediatric Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (pFS-ICU) questionnaire)	Percentage of "excellent" scores in the decision making domain of the Pediatric Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (pFS-ICU) questionnaire	Participants will be followed for the duration of PICU admission, an expected average of 10 days
Parental Satisfaction in the PICU (Score on the Pediatric Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (pFS-ICU) questionnaire)	Score on the Pediatric Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (pFS-ICU) questionnaire	3-5 weeks after PICU Discharge
Parental Satisfaction in the PICU (Score on the Pediatric Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (pFS-ICU) questionnaire)	Score on the Pediatric Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (pFS-ICU) questionnaire	Participants will be followed for the duration of PICU admission, an expected average of 10 days
Parental Decision Regret (Decision Regret Scale)	Score on the Decision Regret Scale, a 5-item Likert-scale measure of decision regret	3-5 weeks after PICU discharge
Parental Decision Regret (Decision Regret Scale)	Score on the Decision Regret Scale, a 5-item Likert-scale measure of decision regret	Collected at the end of the PICU admission, an expected average of 10 days
Parental Anxiety (Anxiety SF8a)	Score on the Anxiety SF8a, a 8-item Likert-scale measure of anxiety	3-5 weeks after PICU discharge
Parental Anxiety (Anxiety SF8a)	Score on the Anxiety SF8a, a 8-item Likert-scale measure of anxiety	Collected at the end of the PICU admission, an expected average of 10 days
Parental Depression (Depression SF8a)	Score on the Depression SF8a, a 8-item Likert-scale measure of depression	3-5 weeks after PICU discharge
Parental Depression (Depression SF8a)	Score on the Depression SF8a, a 8-item Likert-scale measure of depression	Collected at the end of the PICU admission, an expected average of 10 days
Parental Impact of event/Post-Traumatic Distress (Impact of Event Scale-revised)	Score on the Impact of Event Scale-revised, a 22-item Likert-scale measure of post-traumatic distress	3-5 weeks after PICU discharge
Parental Impact of event/Post-Traumatic Distress (Impact of Event Scale-revised)	Score on the Impact of Event Scale-revised, a 22-item Likert-scale measure of post-traumatic distress	Collected at the end of the PICU admission, an expected average of 10 days
Parental Health-related Quality of Life (Global Health scale)	Score on the Global Health scale, a 10 item Likert-scale measure of overall health-related quality of life	3-5 weeks after PICU discharge
Parental Health-related Quality of Life (Global Health scale)	Score on the Global Health scale, a 10 item Likert-scale measure of overall health-related quality of life	Collected at the end of the PICU admission, an expected average of 10 days
Parental Complicated Bereavement (Grief Scale)	Score on the Index of complicated Grief Scale, a 19-item Likert-scale measure of complicated grief	3-5 weeks after PICU discharge
Parental assessment of healthcare team communication with parents	Score on the Communication Assessment Tool, a 14-item Likert-scale measure of patient-provider communication	Participants will be followed for the duration of PICU admission, an expected average of 10 days
Parental assessment of healthcare team collaboration (Satisfaction about Care Decisions)	Score of the Collaboration and Satisfaction about Care Decisions scale, a 9-item Likert-scale measure of healthcare team communication in ICUs	3-5 weeks after PICU discharge
Parental assessment of healthcare team collaboration (Collaboration and Satisfaction about Care Decisions scale)	Score of the Collaboration and Satisfaction about Care Decisions scale, a 9-item Likert-scale measure of healthcare team communication in ICUs	Participants will be followed for the duration of PICU admission, an expected average of 10 days
Healthcare team assessment of healthcare team collaboration (Collaboration and Satisfaction about Care Decisions scale)	Score of the Collaboration and Satisfaction about Care Decisions scale, a 9-item Likert-scale measure of healthcare team communication in ICUs	At the end of patient recruitment, expected length of patient recruitment 18 months
Healthcare team assessment of healthcare team collaboration (Collaboration and Satisfaction about Care Decisions scale)	Score of the Collaboration and Satisfaction about Care Decisions scale, a 9-item Likert-scale measure of healthcare team communication in ICUs	Collected at the end of the PICU admission, an expected average of 10 days
Parental report of acceptability and perceived effectiveness of PICU Supports (Likert-scale)	Likert-scale items measuring perceived effectiveness and acceptability of the PICU Supports intervention	3-5 weeks after PICU Discharge
Parental report of acceptability and perceived effectiveness of PICU Supports (Likert-scale)	Likert-scale items measuring perceived effectiveness and acceptability of the PICU Supports intervention	Collected at the end of the PICU admission, an expected average of 10 days
Healthcare team members report of acceptability and perceived effectiveness of PICU Supports (Likert-scale)	Likert-scale items measuring perceived effectiveness and acceptability of the PICU Supports intervention	Collected at the end of the PICU admission, an expected average of 10 days

Other Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Feasibility of PICU Supports ( using documentation of a priori determined key components of PICU Supports)	Assessment of fidelity to the PICU Support intervention using documentation of a priori determined key components of PICU Supports	Participants will be followed for the duration of PICU admission, an expected average of 10 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
• Collaborators: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Kelly N Michelson, MD, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 6, 2015
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 7, 2017
• Study Completion (Actual): March 7, 2017

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 2, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 5, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): January 7, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 3, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 1, 2017
• Last Verified: May 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Decision Making; Randomized Controlled Trial; Intervention Study; Navigator; Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
• Other Study ID Numbers: The Navigate Study

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO