Recruitment

Recruitment Status
Not yet recruiting
Estimated Enrollment
Same as current

Summary

Conditions
  • Caregivers
  • Depression, Anxiety
  • Functionally Impaired Elderly
  • Intensive Care Unit Syndrome
  • PTSD
Type
Interventional
Phase
Not Applicable
Design
Allocation: RandomizedIntervention Model: Parallel AssignmentIntervention Model Description: Multicentre study with ? 100 ICUs from Europe. Randomisation at ICU level to give support to caregivers or not (cluster-randomisation)Masking: None (Open Label)Primary Purpose: Supportive Care

Participation Requirements

Age
Between 80 years and 125 years
Gender
Both males and females

Description

Aims of the study Results from family/care givers experience: Degree of involvement with post-ICU care, impact on their own health (depression, PTSD, burden questionnaire) Effect of a simple intervention: on-line support and/or telephone advice on Return to pre-ICU frailty score (patients) and Occur...

Aims of the study Results from family/care givers experience: Degree of involvement with post-ICU care, impact on their own health (depression, PTSD, burden questionnaire) Effect of a simple intervention: on-line support and/or telephone advice on Return to pre-ICU frailty score (patients) and Occurrence of PTSD and depression in care-givers Information on 6 months' outcome (frailty and mortality) in very old survivors after ICU in different European countries Information on trajectories in the time after discharge: Dead/alive, home, nursing home, new hospital admissions, living with family/other care-givers, etc.

Tracking Information

NCT #
NCT03138278
Collaborators
European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Hans Flaatten, Prof University of bergen; ESICM