Modified Hospital Elder Life Program at Intensive Care Unit

NCT ID: NCT06054828

Last Updated: 2025-11-28

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

266 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-09-05

Study Completion Date

2026-07-31

Brief Summary

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Delirium, a form of acute brain dysfunction, occurs in up to 81% of patients receiving mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU). Delirium occurring in the ICU is associated with increased functional dependency, cognitive impairment, longer length of hospital stay, and mortality. This study aim to develop a nursing-driven ICU delirium intervention to reduce incidence of delirium, increase the delirium-and coma-free days (DCFDs), and improve ICU patients' function, cognition, and mortality outcomes 3 months following their ICU admission. The "modified Hospital Elder life Program at the ICU (mHELP@ICU)" will be provided to ensure critically ill patients are cognitively engaged, physically active, and nutritionally well-fed.

This three-year study is divided into two phases. The first phase aims to ensure the accuracy of delirium assessment using the Intensive Care Delirium Screening Checklist (ICDSC) by ICU nurses of three participating ICUs. The ICDSC records assessed by ICU nurses will be abstracted from medical records and compared with a gold standard ICDSC evaluation by a well-trained, independent assessor. Cohen's kappa will be reported to represent the consistency of the ICDSC assessment between delirium data from medical records and the independent assessor. When the Cohen's kappa is less than 0.8, a 3-month bedside teaching and real-time feedback education program will be implemented at three ICU units to improve the accuracy of ICDSC assessment by ICU nurses. The second phase will be a clinical trial using a stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial design. Adult (18 years and older) critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation will be consecutively enrolled from three mix-medical ICUs at a studied medical center. Estimated 266 participants will be cluster-randomized into the intervention and control groups. Participants in the intervention group will receive a 14-day mHELP@ICU, provided by a trained mHELP nurse, while the participants who received the usual care will serve as controls. Effects of mHELP@ICU will be evaluated using the daily delirium and coma data (max 14 days, or until death or ICU discharge) retrieved from the medical records, along with the participants' mortality, cognitive, and functional outcomes, which a blinded outcome assessor will assess at 48 hours, 14 days, 30 days, and 90 days after ICU admission.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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ICU Delirium

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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mHELP@ICU

Participants will receive cognitive engagement twice daily, have physical activity once daily, and be monitored for their feeding. The intervention will be administered for 14 days or until hospital discharge or death.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

mHELP@ICU

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The 14-day mHELP@ICU consists of the following three components:

1. Cognitive engagement twice daily: Participants will receive orienting communication, plus one of the following training on attention, memory, or function execution.
2. Physical activity once daily: Participants will receive a passive range of motion(ROM) and/or anti-gravity ROM exercise if tolerated.
3. Feeding monitor daily: The exact feeding data will be abstracted from medical records.

Control group

Participants in the control group will receive the usual care.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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mHELP@ICU

The 14-day mHELP@ICU consists of the following three components:

1. Cognitive engagement twice daily: Participants will receive orienting communication, plus one of the following training on attention, memory, or function execution.
2. Physical activity once daily: Participants will receive a passive range of motion(ROM) and/or anti-gravity ROM exercise if tolerated.
3. Feeding monitor daily: The exact feeding data will be abstracted from medical records.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* participants who are 18 years old or older.
* participants who receive oral endotracheal intubation with mechanical ventilation and are expected intubation greater than 48 hours.
* participants are free from delirium or coma before ICU admission.

Exclusion Criteria

* participants who are placed on droplet or contact precautions (e.g., Open TB, SARS, COVID-19 )
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Taiwan University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Cheryl, Chia-Hui Chen, PhD

Taipei, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Taiwan

Central Contacts

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Chen Chia-Hui, PhD

Role: CONTACT

+886-2-23123456 ext. 288438

Facility Contacts

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Chen Chia-Hui, PhD

Role: primary

+886-2-23123456 ext. 288438

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Other Identifiers

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202301153RINB

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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