Experience of Staying in Intensive Care and Impact on Quality of Life (Expe-Rea)

University Hospital, Strasbourg, France

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07339891

9771

Details and patient eligibility

About

It now seems well established that post-traumatic stress disorder following a stay in intensive care is one of the factors that affects patients' quality of life after they leave hospital.

Several qualitative and quantitative studies suggest that there are several factors associated with the onset of this post-traumatic stress disorder, including the absence of memory of the stay in intensive care. With this in mind, some intensive care units (in France and abroad) are implementing measures to improve the patient experience during their stay, particularly to compensate for this lack of memory: several studies show a link between the introduction of intensive care unit logbooks and a decrease in the incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder after returning home.

The aim of this research project is to measure the experience of the stay in intensive care and its possible impact on quality of life. It is therefore part of a process of implementing measures within general and cardiovascular surgical intensive care units, aimed at better assessing and improving the quality of life of patients after a stay in intensive care.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adult patient (≥ 18 years)
• Stay in intensive care > 48 hours

Exclusion criteria

• Admission to intensive care following scheduled surgery.
• Readmission to intensive care (previous admission within the 30 days prior).
• Patient under legal guardianship
• Inability to complete a questionnaire
• Poor reading and/or speaking comprehension of French
• Patient under guardianship or conservatorship.