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Family Satisfaction (FS) in the Intensive Care Unit

NCT ID: NCT01449734

Last Updated: 2013-11-11

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

217 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2011-04-30

Study Completion Date

2012-11-30

Brief Summary

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There is increasing awareness that high-quality care in the intensive care unit also includes care of visiting family members according to their needs. The investigators therefore want to assess family satisfaction using a questionnaire that was specially developed for this setting and recently validated for German-speaking participants.

Detailed Description

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Family members who visit patients on the ICU (intensive care unit) are not just onlookers. They experience the process of care along with their loved ones. Increasingly, the satisfaction of family members with ICU care, decision-making and information, and their empowerment to contribute towards patient care as near relatives, is being perceived as an important aspect of the general quality of ICU care.

Family satisfaction is assessed using the 34-item FS-ICU questionnaire which was recently validated for German-speaking participants.

The aim of this pilot survey is to identify opportunities for improvement of family satisfaction.

Conditions

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Critical Illness

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* all visiting family members who consent to participate

Exclusion Criteria

* no more than two family members per patient;
* prior participation
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Center for Sepsis Control and Care, Germany

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Christiane Hartog

Principal investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Christiane S Hartog, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Jena University Hospital, Dpt. of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

Locations

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Intensive Care Units of the University Hospital Jena

Jena, Thuringia, Germany

Site Status

Countries

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Germany

References

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Wall RJ, Engelberg RA, Downey L, Heyland DK, Curtis JR. Refinement, scoring, and validation of the Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (FS-ICU) survey. Crit Care Med. 2007 Jan;35(1):271-9. doi: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000251122.15053.50.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 17133189 (View on PubMed)

Heyland DK, Rocker GM, Dodek PM, Kutsogiannis DJ, Konopad E, Cook DJ, Peters S, Tranmer JE, O'Callaghan CJ. Family satisfaction with care in the intensive care unit: results of a multiple center study. Crit Care Med. 2002 Jul;30(7):1413-8. doi: 10.1097/00003246-200207000-00002.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 12130954 (View on PubMed)

Stricker KH, Kimberger O, Schmidlin K, Zwahlen M, Mohr U, Rothen HU. Family satisfaction in the intensive care unit: what makes the difference? Intensive Care Med. 2009 Dec;35(12):2051-9. doi: 10.1007/s00134-009-1611-4.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 19730813 (View on PubMed)

Schwarzkopf D, Behrend S, Skupin H, Westermann I, Riedemann NC, Pfeifer R, Gunther A, Witte OW, Reinhart K, Hartog CS. Family satisfaction in the intensive care unit: a quantitative and qualitative analysis. Intensive Care Med. 2013 Jun;39(6):1071-9. doi: 10.1007/s00134-013-2862-7. Epub 2013 Feb 16.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 23417207 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23417207

Publication of study results

Other Identifiers

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Jena FS-ICU

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id