Caregiver Burden and Wellbeing in Relatives of Intensive Care Unit Patients
- Conditions
- Social Responsibility
- Registration Number
- NCT02712541
- Lead Sponsor
- Karolinska University Hospital
- Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is an association between adverse physical and/or psychological outcome in ICU survivors and the caregiver burden for their relatives.
We hypothesize that relatives to ICU survivors with an incomplete physical and/or psychological recovery three months after ICU stay report a higher caregiver burden.
- Detailed Description
This is a sub-study to the multicenter "PROGRESS study". Details of the PROGRESS study have been described elsewhere. Briefly, an observational study including 600-1000 adult ICU patients from ten European hospitals will be followed up during three months to identify potential risk factors for physical and psychological problems.
The sub-study is conducted in four Swedish hospitals (Karolinska University Hospital Solna, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Örebro University Hospital and Akademiska University Hospital in Uppsala). Relatives to patients included in the PROGRESS study, who give informed consent to participate are consecutively included in the study.
Consenting participants (relatives) will be approached after inclusion of the patient and asked to estimate their own health related quality of life (HRQOL) 2 weeks prior to the time point for patient ICU admission through a HRQOL questionnaire. This self-reported HRQOL data will be used as proxy for baseline data. Three months after ICU discharge, relatives to ICU survivors will receive the following questionnaires by postal mail; Caregiver Burden Index, HRQOL questionnaire, a questionnaire screening for symptoms of anxiety and depression and a questionnaire screening for symptoms of posttraumatic stress.
The relatives will also be asked to state the number of working days lost due to caretaking of the ICU survivor.
ICU survivors' physical and psychological outcome, assessed with BI, SF-36, PTSS-14 and HADS three months after ICU discharge, obtained in the main PROGRESS study, will be compared with relatives' reported caregiver burden.
Secondary outcomes are associations between caregiver burden and reported health-related quality of life between baseline and 3 months after ICU discharge, frequency of symptoms of anxiety, depression and posttraumatic stress 3 months post ICU discharge and number of working days lost because of their relative's critical illness.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 75
- Relatives are considered eligible if they are a) partner to the patient b) adult children, siblings, parents or close friend that share household with the ICU survivor
- Non-Swedish-speaking
- Overt or documented cognitive impairment
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Caregiver burden Index score Three months after patients' discharge from the ICU Score compared between nearest of kin to patients with good or poor physical or psychological outcome (obtained in the main PROGRESS-ICU Study), three months after ICU discharge
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Short Form-36 Three months after patients' ICU discharge Relation between Caregiver burden Index scores and mental component score in SF-36
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Three months post ICU discharge Relation between outcomes in patients and scores in nearest of kin
Posttraumatic stress symptoms Inventory - 14 Three months post ICU discharge Relation between patients outcome and nearest of kin scores
Trial Locations
- Locations (4)
Örebro Universitetssjukhus
🇸🇪Örebro, Sweden
Dept of Anesthesiology, Surgical Services and Intensive Care Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital
🇸🇪Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm South Hospital
🇸🇪Stockholm, Sweden
Dept of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Uppsala Akademiska
🇸🇪Uppsala, Sweden