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Reducing Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Related Anxiety Through a Structured Information Program

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Philipps University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Heart Diseases

Treatments

Behavioral: ICU-specific information program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00151554
BMBF grant 01GT0303
PflegeverbundMarburg2

Details and patient eligibility

About

According to current evidence and psychological theorizing, the provision of information seems to be a promising way to reduce the anxiety of patients that is related to their scheduled ICU stay. An ICU-specific information program will be investigated in a randomized controlled clinical trial involving 120 patients undergoing elective open heart surgery and 20 patients undergoing abdominal surgery. It is expected that the patients in the test group will experience less anxiety and ICU related discomfort than patients in the control group.

Full description

Objective: According to current evidence and psychological theorizing the provision of information seems to be a promising way to reduce anxiety of patients. In the case of surgical patients, admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) is strongly associated with uncertainty, unpredictability and anxiety for the patient. Thus, ICU-specific information could have a high clinical impact. For this reason this study will evaluate the efficacy of an ICU-specific information program for patients who undergo elective cardiac, abdominal or thoracic surgery and are scheduled for ICU stay.

Methods: The trial is designed as a prospective randomized controlled trial including an intervention and a control group. The control group receives the standard preparation currently conducted by surgeons and anesthesists. The intervention group additionally receives a standardized information program with specific procedural, sensory and coping information about the ICU. In addition the moderating effect of certain personality characteristics (need for cognition, high trait anxiety) will be investigated to identify groups of patients who benefit most from the information program.

Expected Results: A clinically relevant difference in anxiety and unpleasant experiences related to the ICU is expected after discharge from the ICU. Power calculation (alpha = 0.05; beta = 0.20; delta = 8.50 score points) resulted in a required sample size of N = 120 cardiac surgical patients (n = 60 vs. n = 60). Furthermore, N = 20 abdominal or thoracic surgical patients will be recruited (n = 10 vs. n = 10).

Conclusion: The proposed study promises to strengthen evidence on the effects of a specific, concise information program and thus should contribute to evidence based nursing (EBN).

Enrollment

140 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Elective open heart or abdominal surgery including scheduled ICU stay
  • Informed consent

Exclusion criteria

  • Elective surgery without ICU stay
  • Informed consent denied

Trial design

140 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group
No Intervention group
Intervention group
Experimental group
Treatment:
Behavioral: ICU-specific information program

Trial contacts and locations

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