Interactive Hand-grip Strength Game in Critically Illness Patients

Taipei Medical University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Critical Illness

Treatments: Other: Hand-grip Strength Game

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05298241

N202102007

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients admitted to the intensive care units (ICUs) are an unexpected event that consequently causes physical and psychological problems, including ICU acquired weakness, delirium, sleep disruptions, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Such consequences may lead to prolonged ICU stay, increased health care, and elevated medical costs. Therefore, mitigating physical and psychological distresses by providing timely effective interventions has become a top concern to optimize critically ill patients' recovery. Investigators aim to design an interactive hand-grip game to improve patients' upper limbs activities and psychological health in patients requiring intensive care.

Full description

Patients admitted to the intensive care units (ICUs) are an unexpected event that consequently causes physical and psychological problems, including ICU acquired weakness, delirium, sleep disruptions, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Such consequences may lead to prolonged ICU stay, increased health care, and elevated medical costs. Therefore, mitigating physical and psychological distresses by providing timely effective interventions has become a top concern to optimize critically ill patients' recovery. Investigaters aim to design a interactive hand-grip game to improve patients' upper limbs activities and psychological health in patients requiring intensive care. This will be a two-arm, parallel randomized controlled trial which randomly assign patients into the game group and usual care group.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged ≥ 20 years
• Having clear consciousness
• Independently able to mobilize to complete the intervention and communicate in Chinese
• Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS) 24 between +1 to -1 if using sedatives

Exclusion criteria

• Suspect neurological deficits
• Neuromuscular disease
• Orthopedic injuries with contraindications to mobilize

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Hand-grip Strength Game

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive a hand-grip strength game for 5-20 minutes twice a day for consecutive three days.

Treatment:

Other: Hand-grip Strength Game

routine care

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will not involve hand-grip strength game at night.