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

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

140 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2005-02-28

Study Completion Date

2006-12-31

Brief Summary

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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.

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Detailed Description

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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).

Conditions

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Heart Diseases

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Control group

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Intervention group

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

ICU-specific information program

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The intervention group receives a standardized information program with specific procedural, sensory and coping information about the ICU in addition to standard information given by surgeons and anesthetists.

Interventions

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ICU-specific information program

The intervention group receives a standardized information program with specific procedural, sensory and coping information about the ICU in addition to standard information given by surgeons and anesthetists.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL