ICU Patient and Family Comfort Study

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Thirst; Satisfaction; Anxiety; Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: mouth care; Behavioral: pain intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00798941

08033609

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate family-led interventions for Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients' symptoms (i.e., pain and thirst) that will involve ICU patients' family members in the non-pharmacological management of these symptoms. This family involvement may help to ameliorate not only patients' symptoms but also the families' symptoms and promote family satisfaction with ICU care.

Enrollment: 120 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient:

  • in ICU for at least 24 hours;
  • adult;
  • able to self-report;
  • pain and thirst greater than 3 on 0-10 numeric rating scale;
  • English-speaking.

• Family member:

  • 18 years or older;
  • visits patient more than other family members;
  • closest person to patient (can be non-biological).

Exclusion criteria

• Patient:

  • in ICU for at less than 24 hours;
  • non-adult;
  • unable to self-report;
  • no pain and thirst greater than 3 on 0-10 numeric rating scale;
  • non-English-speaking.

• Family member:

  • younger than 18 years;
  • visits patient less than other family members;
  • not closest person to patient.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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120 participants in 3 patient groups

pain intervention

Experimental group

Description:

music and massage for 30 minutes

Treatment:

Behavioral: pain intervention

thirst intervention

Experimental group

Description:

sterile water mouth spray, lip moisturizer,mouth swab

Treatment:

Behavioral: mouth care

control

No Intervention group