Family Procedural Presence

Intermountain Health Care, Inc.120 enrolled

Overview

This study seeks to determine the effect of a quality improvement policy regarding allowing family members to remain in a patient's room during ICU procedures. The investigators hypothesized that our change in policy to invite family members to remain during procedures will improve patient \& family engagement and improve long term psychological outcomes after an ICU admission. The study also seeks to determine if inviting family members to remain in a patient's room during ICU procedures will not increase clinician stress.

This is a research study about the effect of a quality improvement policy change regarding family presence at ICU procedures on family and patient engagement, psychological outcomes and stress levels in clinicians. In the study, ICU patients, their family members and ICU clinicians will be surveyed regarding these outcomes, with some surveys obtained prior to a policy change and a second set during a second time period after policy change. The patients and family members will be asked survey questions after the procedure and 3 months later. This study will also evaluate the change in clinician stress related to this policy change, and clinicians will also answer survey questions.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

120

Conditions

Patient and Family Engagement

Interventions

Families Invited to Be Present at ProceduresPROCEDURE

Family members will be invited (but not required) to remain in the ICU room during procedures, if patients agree

Placebo/ControlOTHER

Family members will not be invited to remain in the ICU room

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * 18 years old or older * Able to read \& speak English * Family member of a patient or a patient that has undergone one of these procedures at any point during the ICU stay (if the procedure occurs from Sunday at 8 am to Friday at 12 pm): intubation, central line placement, arterial line placement, bronchoscopy, thoracentesis, chest tube placement, paracentesis and lumbar puncture * Physician (both attending physicians and trainees) and nurses who work in the ICU during the study period. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients for whom no family member can be identified * Non-English speaking individuals * Children (\<18 years of age) * Participants with dementia, psychiatric disorder with psychosis, schizophrenia or known cognitive dysfunction (established from chart review, report and/or score greater than or equal to 3 on IQ Code screening). * Provider who does not want to participate

Locations (1)

Intermountain Medical Center

Murray, Utah, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Patient & Family Member Engagement

Engagement, as measured by the collaboRATE survey, administered to patients \& family members within 48 hours after a procedure in the ICU

Time frame: Time of ICU procedure to 48 hours afterwards

Secondary Outcomes

Patient & Family Member Stress

Perceived stress of patient \& family members, assessed within 48 hours after a procedure in the ICU by the Perceived Stress Scale-4 (PSS-4), measured on a scale from 0 to 16 with high numbers indicating increased level of perceived stress.

Time frame: Time of ICU procedure to 48 hours afterwards

Clinician Stress

Clinician stress, as assessed within 48 hours after a procedure in ICU by the visual analog scale, measured on a scale from 1-100 with 100 indicating higher levels of clinician stress.

Time frame: Time of ICU procedure to 48 hours afterwards

Procedural Complication Rate

Complications associated with procedures, including infections associated with central lines

Time frame: Through 7 days after the ICU procedure

Trainee Satisfaction with Procedure Education

Satisfaction with the education experience among trainees performing procedures, as assessed within 24 hours by a Likert scale from 1-5 with 5 indicating increased satisfaction with education experience and 1 indicating dissatisfaction with education experience.

Time frame: Time of ICU procedure to 24 hours afterwards

Patient & Family Member Anxiety & Depression

Anxiety and depression for patients \& family members, assessed at 3 months after the ICU procedure by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), measured from 0 to 42 with higher scores indicating more likelihood of anxiety or depression.

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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