Family-authored Digital ICU Diary Intervention to Support Bereaved Family Members in Intensive Care Unit: A Pilot Mixed Methods Study (ICU-Diary-HK)
Feasibility, Acceptability and Efficacy of a Family-authored Digital ICU Diary Intervention for Bereaved Family Members in Hong Kong Intensive Care Units: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial With Qualitative Process Evaluation
Objectives: To assess the feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness of a family-authored digital ICU diary intervention for bereaved family members in Hong Kong ICUs, and to explore family members' experiences of writing digital diaries during and following patient death.
Hypothesis: The ICU digital diary intervention will prove feasible, acceptable and potentially efficacious in reducing bereaved family members' PTSD, anxiety and depression at 1 and 3 months post-patient death compared with baseline measurements.
Design and Subjects: A two-arm, assessor-blind pilot randomised controlled trial with subsequent qualitative process evaluation. Forty family members of ICU patients receiving life-sustaining treatment will be recruited from three Hong Kong public hospitals and randomised 1:1 to intervention or control groups.
Instruments: Feasibility of Intervention Measure (FIM), Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM), Intervention Appropriateness Measure (IAM), Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome-14 (PTSS-14) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS).
Intervention: Family-authored digital ICU diary via WhatsApp, commencing when a patient's treatment is deemed life-sustaining, continuing through death and a one-month bereavement period.
Main Outcome Measures: Primary: recruitment rate, retention rate, compliance, feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness. Secondary: symptoms of PTSD, anxiety and depression.
Data Analysis: Descriptive statistics for feasibility outcomes; repeated measures ANOVA and linear mixed effects models for psychological outcomes; thematic analysis for qualitative data.
Studieoversigt
Status
Status
Betingelser
Betingelser
Intervention / Behandling
Intervention / Behandling
Undersøgelsestype
Undersøgelsestype
Tilmelding (Anslået)
Tilmelding
Fase
Fase
- Ikke anvendelig
Kontakter og lokationer
Studiekontakt
Studiekontakt
- Navn: Hye Ri Choi
- Telefonnummer: 852-6349-0524
- E-mail: hyeripc@hku.hk
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Berettigelseskriterier
Berettigelseskriterier
Aldre berettiget til at studere
- Voksen
- Ældre voksen
Tager imod sunde frivillige
Beskrivelse
Inclusion Criteria:
- One family member (closest to patient: spouse, grown child, or parent) of adult ICU patients whose treatment is considered life-sustaining
- Patient admitted to adult ICU for minimum 48 hours
- Patient dies in adult ICU without transfer to other inpatient units
- Able to read, write and communicate effectively in Chinese or English
Exclusion Criteria:
- Currently diagnosed with psychiatric disease and taking psychotropic medication
- Currently participating in any psychological intervention
- Cognitive impairment
Studieplan
Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?
Design detaljer
- Primært formål: Sundhedstjenesteforskning
- Tildeling: Randomiseret
- Interventionel model: Parallel tildeling
- Maskning: Enkelt
Antal våben
Våben og indgreb
Deltagergruppe / ArmDeltagergruppe / Arm |
Intervention / BehandlingIntervention / Behandling |
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Eksperimentel: Intervention
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From medical consideration of life-sustaining treatment through patient death + 1 month post-death (approximately 4 weeks active writing, then wound down)
Standard care without the digital ICU diary intervention
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Aktiv komparator: Styring
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Standard care without the digital ICU diary intervention
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Hvad måler undersøgelsen?
Primære resultatmål
Primære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
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Feasibility of the Digital ICU Diary Intervention
Tidsramme: Month 1 and Month 3 after patient's death
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Feasibility assessed using the Feasibility of Intervention Measure (FIM), a 4-item, 5-point Likert scale (1=Completely disagree to 5=Completely agree).
Higher scores indicate greater perceived feasibility.
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Month 1 and Month 3 after patient's death
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Acceptability of the Digital ICU Diary Intervention
Tidsramme: Month 1 and Month 3 after patient's death
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Acceptability assessed using the Acceptability of Intervention Measure (AIM), a 4-item, 5-point Likert scale (1=Completely disagree to 5=Completely agree).
Higher scores indicate greater perceived acceptability.
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Month 1 and Month 3 after patient's death
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Appropriateness of the Digital ICU Diary Intervention
Tidsramme: Month 1 and Month 3 after patient's death
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Appropriateness assessed using the Intervention Appropriateness Measure (IAM), a 4-item, 5-point Likert scale (1=Completely disagree to 5=Completely agree).
Higher scores indicate greater perceived appropriateness.
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Month 1 and Month 3 after patient's death
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Sekundære resultatmål
Sekundære resultatmål
Resultatmål |
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse |
Tidsramme |
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Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms as Measured by the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R)
Tidsramme: Baseline, Month 1, and Month 3 after patient's death
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IES-R, a 22-item self-report scale rated on a 5-point scale (0=not at all to 4=extremely).
Total score ranges from 0 to 88.
Higher scores indicate greater severity of post-traumatic stress symptoms.
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Baseline, Month 1, and Month 3 after patient's death
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Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms as Measured by PTSS-14
Tidsramme: Baseline, Month 1, and Month 3 after patient's death
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Posttraumatic Stress Syndrome-14 (PTSS-14), a 14-item self-report scale rated on a 7-point Likert scale (1=never to 7=always).
Total score ranges from 14 to 98. Higher scores indicate greater severity of post-traumatic stress symptoms.
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Baseline, Month 1, and Month 3 after patient's death
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Anxiety as Measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-A)
Tidsramme: Baseline, Month 1, and Month 3 after patient's death
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HADS anxiety subscale, 7 items scored 0-3 each.
Subscale score ranges from 0 to 21.
Higher scores indicate greater severity of anxiety symptoms.
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Baseline, Month 1, and Month 3 after patient's death
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Depression as Measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D)
Tidsramme: Baseline, Month 1, and Month 3 after patient's death
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HADS depression subscale, 7 items scored 0-3 each.
Subscale score ranges from 0 to 21.
Higher scores indicate greater severity of depression symptoms.
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Baseline, Month 1, and Month 3 after patient's death
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Studiestart (Anslået)
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Primær færdiggørelse (Anslået)
Primær færdiggørelse
Studieafslutning (Anslået)
Studieafslutning
Datoer for studieregistrering
Først indsendt
Først indsendt
Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier
Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier
Først opslået (Faktiske)
Først opslået
Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler
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Sidste opdatering sendt
Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier
Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier
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Sidst verificeret
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Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår
- Traumer og stressor-relaterede lidelser
- Psykiske lidelser
- Adfærdsmæssige symptomer
- Stresslidelser, traumatiske
- Opførsel
- Angstlidelser
- Depression
- Stresslidelser, posttraumatisk
- Sundhedstjenester Administration
- Sundhedsvæsenets kvalitet, adgang og evaluering
- Sundhedskvalitet
- Kvalitetsindikatorer, sundhedsvæsenet
- Standard for pleje
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- HMRF23242771
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